This
year
your
ARRL 10 Meter Contest
2014 Results
By Scott Tuthill, K7ZO <[email protected]>
Fun (noun): enjoyment, amusement, or pleasure
Remember when you decided to get your ticket? You did
it because you knew it would be fun, right? One of the
great things about Amateur Radio is that there are just so
many ways of having fun. Participating in the contests is
one of those, whether you are the competitive type or not.
During the 2014 ARRL 10 Meter Contest amateurs
worldwide enjoyed and amused themselves over the fine
December 13-14 weekend.
In some respects a contest is like a giant party where
planet Earth is the party room. Operators get on the air
and, in their own way, strive to go meet and talk with as
many folks in the room as they want. You log who you
talk to and, if you want, submit that log to see how you
did compared to others. You might also be part of your
local radio club's team and, together with your friends,
compete for club bragging rights. You also might use
those contacts to complete your DXCC quest or to work
that last state or two towards your Worked All States
(WAS) or Triple Play awards. During a contest there are
certainly many stations on the air to chase. Contests may
also provide you motivation to build an antenna just to
get on the air or improve the ones you have. It is also a
great opportunity to introduce people to the hobby of
Amateur Radio.
During the 2014 ARRL 10 Meter contest more than
11,000 operators worldwide got on the air making an
estimated 2.6 million QSOs. If evenly spread across the
whole weekend this represents about 15 QSOs being
made every second! That's a lot of party talk going on.
After the contest, a record 5,488 operators submitted
their log to the ARRL for the contest results. That's about
half the active operators. Perhaps this tells us that while
everyone had fun, about 50% of the operators were also
in it for the competition. Let's look at some examples of
the fun had by all.
Since Keenan knew how far away home in TU was, he
was amazed grandpa could talk to someone in that
neighborhood of the world.
Bruce, AA5B, with grandson Keenan. (Photo - AA5B)
Bill, K2PO, took the opportunity during contest weekend
to gather up a bunch of friends and have an actual party.
In contest lingo this is called a multioperator activation.
But, having participated in some multiops myself, this
author knows they are usually a bit party and a bit radio
operating.
These folks had fun
Bruce, AA5B, got a chance during the contest to spend
some quality time with his 7 year old grandson, Keenan.
Bruce let Keenan rotate the antenna when he needed to
beam in a new direction. Keenan, who was visiting from
his home in the Ivory Coast (TU), got really excited
when Bruce worked a South African station and grandpa
pointed on the map where the station was located.
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Part of the W7TVC team at K2PO
W8NF, WS7L and W6ABM (Photo - K2PO)
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Bill and friends AF8Z, K7CIE, KD7VOK, KU1CW,
W6ABM, W7TVC, W8NF, WN6W, and WS7L had a
great time though as Dave, AF8Z, related they struggled
with "...the typical Field Day problem wherein a tent fills
with nominally deaf people, socializing in elevated
voices, while I try to concentrate on operating..." In the
end they persevered, managed to make almost 1,400
QSOs, and placed 5th in the US in the Multioperator,
Low Power category. They also contributed their score to
the overall Willamette Valley DX Club entry which
placed them in the middle of the pack in the Medium
Club category. There's a good example where both fun
and competition coexist.
Long-time regular contester Don, K6ZO, used the 10
Meter Contest as an opportunity to introduce a new
operator to the enjoyment of contesting. His pupil was
Christine, KC3CIF, who earned her ticket earlier in 2014.
Don's pre-contest training consisted of showing Christine
how to use N1MM Logger software, how to listen for call
signs, how to apply the DX Code of Conduct (www.dxcode.org), and how to break a pileup.
20 meter phone during the ARRL DX Phone contest —
probably a bit more challenging and frustrating.
Christine must be hooked on the sport now. She has
participated in several other contests and Don is thinking:
"...Christine may be headed to becoming a future
President of our Radio Club".
Fun with whatever station you have
One of the great things about the ARRL 10 Meter contest
is that just about any HF capable operator can have fun
getting on the air. Need high power? Nope. Need giant
antennas high up in the air? Nope. Amazing results have
been had with anything that can radiate RF. Let's take a
look at some notable accomplishments:
Fred, NA2U, retired to sunny Arizona several years ago
and found himself constrained by that bane of many
Amateur Radio operators — CC&Rs and HOAs.
Continuing the tradition of inventiveness in our hobby,
after some trial and error Fred settled in on an antenna
configuration consisting of a ground-mounted
screwdriver antenna with radials and a multiband dipole
at a height of 58 inches. Yes, inches. Not feet!
Christine, KC3CIF, at the mic during her first contest! (Photo - K6ZO)
On contest day, Christine sat down at the microphone
and quickly made her first QSO with a station in France.
From there nothing was holding her back and off and
running she went. Since Christine was operating at the
W3HAC station in Washington DC, a sought-after
multiplier, she quickly drew attention. The 10 Meter
Contest is a perfect event for first time contesters: A wide
band, plenty of activity, loud and clear signals. You can't
help but have fun. Imagine if she tried the same thing on
2014 ARRL 10 Meter Contest
Fred, NA2U's carefully concealed screwdriver antenna (Photo - NA2U)
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So, how did Fred do during the contest? Amazingly he
made 761 QSOs in 16 hours on the air. These QSOs were
not all easy stateside stations either. A selection of DX
multipliers in Fred's log includes all six continents: ZL,
EA8, S5, DL, EA, HK, HI, JA, BY, and VR. One story
Fred tells about his antenna setup has to do with a QSO
he had with well-known operator and author John,
ON4UN. As Fred described, "I worked ON4UN on 20
meters and when I told him I was running 800 watts to a
dipole at 58 inches John asked if I had tried the antenna
underground!" Who said hams don't have a sense of
humor? But, actually, if you read some editions of John's
books he does have several pages devoted to
underground antennas. So, maybe he was not kidding
after all.
Tim, K7XC, didn't have the same antenna visibility
constraints as Fred. His issue as the contest weekend
rapidly approached is that he didn't have any 10 meter
antenna at all! Not wanting to miss out on the fun, off he
went to rummage through his scrap pile. "Gotta be some
pieces in here to make a couple dipoles. Ten meters does
not take much."
His quest was successful and he created a setup of two
dipoles crossed at right angles. Each was fed with its own
feed line allowing him to switch back and forth. As he
described it, "The ability to instantly switch dual azimuth
aiming from NW/SE (Asia/South America) to NE/SW
(Europe/Pacific) was awesome. I actually felt that a Yagi
would have been a disadvantage as I would have missed
possible contacts while turning it back and forth over 90
degrees." Tim managed 706 QSOs running low power
with this very simple and classic antenna system. Most of
us learn about dipole antennas as we study to get our
ticket. The reason we learn about these first is they are
downright awesome antennas.
John, N6HI, has always loved the challenge being a
QRP-only operator. Chasing DX and contesting with a
maximum of 5 watts is fun for him. Like Fred, NA2U,
John also lives in a "NO Antennas" QTH, with a capital
"NO"! If QRP operating isn't a big enough challenge
think of doing it without an antenna.
John, N6HI's invisible antenna (Photo - N6HI)
Tim, K7XC's homebrewed crossed dipoles on top of his trailer tower
(Photo - K7XC)
John, N6HI's very compact QRP operating position (Photo - N6HI)
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Well, of course you need some sort of antenna. A couple
of options are possible: The indoor antenna and the
invisible outdoor antenna. John went with the second
option. As he describes: "I tied a small rock to the end of
a 20 foot hunk of insulated wire, and threw it into a tree
outside my window. On the indoors end of the wire I
attached a banana plug, and plugged that into the center
conductor of the SO-239 antenna output of my tuner.”
Ham ingenuity again, finding a way to have fun. With
this setup John managed to make 52 QSOs including a
couple of Europeans — which from the West Coast was
not so easy.
Another John, N4EEB, found himself away from his
usual QTH during contest weekend. He had with him his
laptop, CW keyer, paddles, and power supply, but no
radio and no antenna. Also not wanting to miss out on
the fun he borrowed a radio from a friend. For an antenna
he hauled out a 40 meter dipole he had in storage and
trimmed it down to 10 meter size. Then to quote John on
his next step, he "strung it between two small trees in the
front yard using a fishing pole and a spoon." The highest
point was 25 feet and the lowest was 15 feet. Did it
work? Did he have fun? You bet. More than 600 QSOs
worth of enjoyment and amusement.
An impressive homebrew 6-element 10 meter antenna by Henry,
K4TMC (Photo - K4TMC)
Let's not forget that the ARRL 10 Meter contest is a
worldwide event. Everyone can talk to everyone and not
everyone has homebrew and minimalist setups. The
photo shows the very well-appointed shack and "mission
control center" at JH1GBZ operated during the contest
by Katsuhiro 'Don' Kondou, JH5GHM. What the photo
does not show are the antennas Don also had available:
two 5-element Yagis in a stack and a separate 7-element
beam. These were instantly switchable between two
different radios using a custom made switching system
located next to the logging keyboard. You can see the
switching panel just below the keyboard in the photo.
John, N4EEB, at his temporary station inside while his dipole was
outside doing all the hard work. (Photo - N4EEB)
While still on the topic of antennas, the 10 Meter Contest
is such a great one for homebrewers. Critical dimensions
are small and manageable. Any required mechanical
supports can be made from just about any material found
at your local home improvement store. Henry, K4TMC,
has built one of the larger homebrew antennas with his 6
element OWA-type rope supported Yagi tied between
two oak trees in his back yard.
The well-appointed "mission control center" at JH1GBZ
(Photo - JH5GHM)
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Top Ten US - By Category
Single Operator, HP, Mixed Mode
K1LZ
N8II
W6YX (N7MH, op)
N3OC
W1WMU
KØTT
NN1N
WX4G
NR3X (N4YDU, op)
W2XL
Single Operator, LP, Mixed Mode
KU2M
KB3WD
K6AM
KH7M (KH6ZM, op)
K2PS
KI6RRN
W3EP
WO4O
N6ZFO
KTØK
Single Operator, QRP, Mixed Mode
WA6FGV
N1CC
K1WHS
W7YAQ
N9NE
W1WBB
KB8U
K3TW
NK8Q
WB2AMU
Single Operator, HP, Phone Only
NR5M
WB9Z
W5PR
NC1I (K9PW, op)
K5TR (WM5R, op)
K4ZA
K2SSS
K4NV
N1IXF
NQ4I (W4DD, op)
Single Operator, LP, Phone Only
KH6LC (NH6V, op)
ACØRA
W1TJL
WR5O
KA7PNH
WA5IYX
KB9TQO
N2MUN
K4FCG (K1KNQ, op)
N1WRK
2014 ARRL 10 Meter Contest
2,674,992
2,077,660
1,713,150
1,621,536
1,558,208
1,473,978
1,431,202
1,323,450
1,185,280
1,138,464
1,446,870
1,436,850
1,200,914
1,184,056
1,178,748
1,160,280
1,090,122
1,081,632
981,376
861,732
327,502
325,704
316,590
310,312
278,216
246,160
211,572
187,000
182,688
155,958
933,966
930,336
885,360
824,892
788,190
707,476
639,880
561,246
537,096
510,624
703,296
278,640
262,432
261,232
204,878
191,940
159,000
154,936
149,176
147,360
Single Operator, QRP, Phone Only
W6QU (W8QZA, op)
KB5KYJ
KKØQ
KK7EL
K2GMY
KA5PVB
KS4GW
WBØIWG
KU4A
NO4FX
Single Operator, HP, CW Only
N2IC
K1TO
KD4D
K8IA
WXØB (NM5M, op)
K4BAI
N4AF
WJ9B
W6PH
K6NA
Single Operator, LP, CW Only
WA1Z
N4WW (N4KM, op)
K1DC
WB4TDH
AE5GT
WD4AHZ
K9QVB
W5MT
W2EG
NA8V
Single Operator, QRP, CW Only
W6JTI
K6OO
AA1CA
KSØMO
AD4Z
WA3IIA
K9AY
K4FT
N5OE
KM6Z
Single Operator Unlimited, HP, Mixed Mode
N8OO
K7RL
K3WW
WØAIH (NE9U, op)
N4PN
W8MJ
K1RO
W4ML (W4MYA, op)
N4UU
N3UA
Full Results – Version 1.3
69,488
69,264
52,140
41,426
38,480
34,932
30,456
26,586
23,760
23,528
1,627,008
1,621,928
1,322,176
1,195,200
1,153,040
1,082,400
1,060,752
1,049,420
1,026,740
1,022,400
886,008
874,608
634,480
629,248
589,280
585,552
479,400
422,532
406,692
386,048
268,256
228,664
203,200
156,672
155,520
145,248
137,592
126,852
120,048
110,864
2,577,568
2,281,216
2,106,490
2,001,084
1,977,054
1,905,856
1,874,708
1,842,640
1,689,000
1,684,296
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Single Operator Unlimited, LP, Mixed Mode
K9OM
N5DO
K8BL
K3IE
K2DFC
W5ZO
K7XC
WW2P
K6MM
AB1J
Single Operator Unlimited, QRP, Mixed Mode
K2FF
N6MA
N3HCN
NF1R
K4YND
N1RLR
WE9R
W3IBT (W3WH, op)
N4QX
Single Operator Unlimited, Phone Only, High
K4XS
K3EST
W3LL
K1RH
WW5TT
K3DNE
KDØFW
KI7M
N8BI
N8ZFM
Single Operator Unlimited, Phone Only, Low
W9XG (K2DRH @K2DRH)
N9TGR
WBØTEV
KE2OI
KC6R
KD4SN
W1AIR
KK4LGC
KG5ANP
KL1JP
Single Operator Unlimited, QRP, Phone Only
W9RPM
WB6CZG
K7ATN
Single Operator Unlimited, CW Only, High
N9NC
K9CT
K6LL
N3RS
K9RS
N4BP
N5FO
KO7AA
WU2X (K5GO, op)
N2PP
2014 ARRL 10 Meter Contest
1,427,090
1,159,180
673,932
630,336
557,388
542,592
392,064
360,396
326,928
315,138
130,784
26,404
21,840
18,748
17,748
15,006
10,584
8,064
868
1,062,360
946,792
599,274
492,656
459,612
389,100
329,472
323,806
303,048
267,960
333,760
235,470
132,912
84,836
82,838
82,536
58,200
53,728
52,052
50,752
41,064
8,544
6,364
Single Operator Unlimited, CW Only, Low
K6WSC
W3KB
NA5NN (W5UE, op)
WA1FCN
N4EEB
WØERP
W9XT
K3SV
KØRI
K3WI
Single Operator Unlimited, QRP, CW Only
N7IR
K5KJ
NØUR
N2KW
WC7S
KW3F
N4UW
KU7Y
N6RO
K4EQ
Multioperator, HP
NX5M
N2NT
AA9A
K6ND
AA1JD
W5KFT
KDØS
K4FJ
W8TK
NX6T
Multioperator, LP
NØNI
WW4LL
WØDLE
N4SVC
W7TVC
WA1S
KO3T
N1WW
NØHJZ
KGØUS
551,600
419,052
383,544
311,040
303,408
279,896
262,524
252,296
250,920
250,368
225,548
211,008
156,032
147,744
98,000
89,688
76,464
54,180
49,932
38,976
3,216,840
3,146,688
2,297,552
2,084,608
2,029,900
1,970,024
1,895,296
1,883,752
1,740,354
1,391,500
1,498,754
1,495,844
1,066,394
1,007,124
981,046
718,592
683,936
574,896
506,160
481,740
1,495,988
1,349,800
1,331,840
1,320,120
1,294,944
1,267,692
1,254,192
1,205,892
1,193,264
1,102,360
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Top Ten Canada – by Category
Single Operator, HP, Mixed Mode
VE3AT
VE3DZ
VA2EW
VE7SZ
VE1JBC
VE3TW
VA2QR (VE2ESU, op)
VA3MTT
VE1ZAC
Single Operator, LP, Mixed Mode
VE4GV
VE1RSM
VE3WG
VE1ZA
VE3FH
VE5UO
VE2AWR
VE4YU
VE3BR
VE5SF
Single Operator, QRP, Mixed Mode
VE6UM
VA3RKM
Single Operator, HP, Phone Only
VO1KVT
VE2JM
VE2GSO
VE6CMV
VA2OBW
VE9FX
VE3HED
Single Operator, LP, Phone Only
VO2NS
VE7ZR
VA6NJK
VE1JS
VE1PEW
VE3TU
VE5AAD
VE2PDT
VA7IR
VE1SQ
Single Operator, QRP, Phone Only
VA3VF
VE3BKM
VE7ETS
VE7GNR
VE3CBK
Single Operator, HP, CW Only
VE3OI
VE7GL (VA7OO, op)
VE6BBP
VE3PN
VA7ST
VE3FGU
VE3KY
VY2SS
VE3EY
VA1MM
2014 ARRL 10 Meter Contest
2,335,110
1,996,722
1,360,040
762,078
310,812
231,312
81,534
45,232
7,128
1,014,948
507,300
360,960
346,580
246,782
235,144
214,728
214,616
188,454
176,834
104,920
12,150
349,920
121,124
120,228
66,722
23,430
21,228
1,536
158,400
146,540
145,084
102,270
84,968
80,088
78,000
60,030
50,280
48,192
33,892
3,328
1,558
936
40
937,848
630,016
532,356
469,440
411,600
388,608
278,008
91,044
63,360
57,816
Single Operator, LP, CW Only
VE1RGB
VA3DF
VE7CA
VA3ATT
VE3KP
VE7NX
VA7MM
VA7EU
VE3ZY
VO1BQ
Single Operator, QRP, CW Only
VY2OX
VE3KZ
VE3VN
VE3DQN
VE3HG
VE6EX
VE3IGJ
VA7AD
Single Operator Unlimited, HP, Mixed Mode
VE7UF (VE7JH, op)
VE9AA
VE4EA
VE3CX
VA2WA
VE7XT
VE3RZ
VE3NRT
VE7AX
VE3ZZ
Single Operator Unlimited, LP, Mixed Mode
VE9OA
VE3XAT
VE2EBK
VE3HEU
VE9ACL
VE7TJF
Single Operator Unlimited, QRP, Mixed Mode
VA3PAW
Single Operator Unlimited, HP, Phone Only
VA3PC
VA2AM
VE6KD
Single Operator Unlimited, LP, Phone Only
VE2PIJ
VE6SPS
VA2MO
Single Operator Unlimited, HP, CW Only
VE1OP
VE5UF
VE3EJ
VE5MX
VE2FK
VE3UTT
VE7XF
VA3DX
VE7IO
VE7JKZ
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368,316
342,616
306,360
147,052
108,704
98,864
93,940
86,052
59,200
58,292
207,792
61,992
34,776
17,544
14,976
14,400
5,460
704
1,881,264
1,721,970
990,510
716,800
388,010
296,808
275,044
240,112
202,224
94,500
217,710
206,382
193,760
50,468
38,016
3,906
18,952
75,438
74,592
48,422
11,790
8,584
1,320
897,544
896,896
457,056
390,688
373,056
308,256
299,224
282,492
202,920
166,000
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Single Operator Unlimited, LP, CW Only
VE6WQ
VE2FU
VE3GFN
VO1HP
VE6UX
VA7HZ
VE3CV
VE3AJ
Single Operator Unlimited, QRP, CW Only
VE3KI
VA2SNL
Multioperator, HP
VE5ZX
VE3YAA
VC3M
VE6AO
Multioperator, LP
VE9ML
VA7BEC
VA7WWV
621,760
569,400
165,200
72,704
69,264
11,592
7,740
6,608
299,592
6,256
977,244
612,582
176,800
13,188
885,920
785,460
364
Top Ten Mexico - by Category
Single Operator, HP, Mixed Mode
XE1H
Single Operator, LP, Mixed Mode
XE1HG
XE2AU
XE1ZTW
Single Operator, HP, Phone Only
XE1B
XE2IC
XE1OGG
Single Operator, LP, Phone Only
XE2O
XE3DX
XE2AA
XE1RF
XE2PXZ
XE1/N4DMH
XE2JUM
XE1GZU
XE2YWH
XE3D
Single Operator, HP, CW Only
XE1MM
XE2S
Single Operator, LP, CW Only
XE2X
XE1AY
XE1UYS
XE2CQ
4A5XX
XE3WMA
XE1RZL
XE2N
Single Operator Unlimited, LP, Mixed Mode
XE2JS
Single Operator Unlimited, HP, Phone Only
XE2K
2014 ARRL 10 Meter Contest
63,826
594,638
199,692
61,812
816,216
359,618
104,346
227,868
214,368
116,460
59,392
53,196
48,048
27,376
22,000
11,656
10,890
688,012
431,568
82,176
80,696
72,704
54,752
41,412
13,500
1,156
18
Single Operator Unlimited, LP, Phone Only
XE3N
XE2ST
Single Operator Unlimited, LP, CW Only
XE2FGC
Multioperator, HP
XE2B
Multioperator, LP
XE1CRG
140,676
27,140
42,228
1,189,656
53,040
Top Ten DX - by Category
Single Operator, HP, Mixed Mode
NP2P (N2TTA, op)
EF5T (EA5HT, op)
YT8A (YU1EA, op)
LY9Y
CT7ACG
JH1GBZ (JH5GHM, op)
S51YI
JA7NVF
JR2GRX
OG6N
Single Operator, LP, Mixed Mode
ZF2DX
YS1YS (JA6WFM, op)
JS6RGJ
HC1WDT
RW7M
EF8O
PY2NY
9A5ST
UI5F
RW4WA
Single Operator, QRP, Mixed Mode
ON6QRP
IZ8JFL
URØHQ
9A2EY
EA2DPA
DK1IZ
EF1M (EB1RL, op)
RW3AI
DL/W6ZBA
UT3IT
Single Operator, HP, Phone Only
HK1T
PJ4DX
DR1D (DL3KO, op)
CT3FQ
LU6ETB (VE3AP, op)
VR2XAN (IV3TAN, op)
HK3C
M6T (GØAEV, op)
TM7F (F6GLH, op)
EF8S (OH1LEG, op)
2,245,304
1,303,574
1,116,416
966,038
943,228
882,392
881,742
823,680
820,488
700,440
2,957,580
1,235,390
922,658
857,280
585,620
566,784
564,120
415,548
412,274
354,354
236,610
88,192
69,936
69,550
68,388
63,474
56,848
54,538
52,826
46,648
1,503,252
1,244,516
701,220
677,504
622,034
572,352
548,772
502,320
496,332
495,762
316,356
191,196
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Single Operator, LP, Phone Only
EA8AH
YY1YLY
EA8MT
CO6LC
KP4BD
KP4EU
ZY2B
EE7Y (EC7WA, op)
TG9ANF
EA1DR
Single Operator, QRP, Phone Only
V31MA
TG9ADQ
CO2CW
CT7AIX
EA2QU
PC1EMR
US5ZCW
CE3WYZ
WP4DT
EA5IFY
Single Operator, HP, CW Only
KP2M (KT3Y, op)
9A5X
DL1VJ (VK2IA, op @DR1A)
LZ9W (LZ5FF, op)
S53A
ES5RY
JH3AIU
CO8ZZ
C4Z (5B4AIZ, op)
S51DX
Single Operator, LP, CW Only
NP3A
WP3C
YT6A
EA8CN
M6O (G3WGN, op)
J35X
OK4RQ
GIØRQK
ZL3TE
HA6NL
Single Operator, QRP, CW Only
LT7H
JA1YNE (JR1NKN, op)
G3SXW
HSØZIA
HA3HX
JQ1NGT
ZS6DX
GM3WUX
YL2CV
IV3DRP
2014 ARRL 10 Meter Contest
847,700
785,880
604,230
517,374
494,928
485,556
436,488
423,384
407,376
385,732
388,750
103,664
95,424
55,076
42,720
29,014
19,656
18,744
18,528
18,000
1,329,996
1,042,756
952,536
931,972
753,616
738,840
692,048
666,596
661,656
602,736
1,268,256
1,142,940
580,068
502,500
433,160
396,864
390,784
382,296
364,760
318,128
406,992
189,312
166,656
157,248
133,500
127,920
124,000
87,696
85,200
76,112
Single Operator Unlimited, HP, Mixed Mode
NP2X
EA8DBM
P4ØCX
EA7KW
HA3NU
EA6URA (EA3AIR, op)
YT2R (YU1AU, op)
ZM1A (ZL3CW, op)
UW2M (URØMC, op)
OL5Y
Single Operator Unlimited, LP, Mixed Mode
PY3OZ
UX1AA
CE2MVF
MW5R (MWØEDX, op)
JA1BPA
ZR9C (ZS6WN, op)
EA2NN
UY5ZZ
PE2HD
S56A
Single Operator Unlimited, QRP, Mixed Mode
RT4W
RUØLAX
JK1TCV
EA8/PD1DX
LZ3ZZ
PA9M
BA4MY
UN7JID
R6FAA
UR5XMM
Single Operator Unlimited, HP, Phone Only
9A1UN
9A5Y (9A7DX, op)
OK7K (OK1BN, op)
TM7G (F4CWN, op)
OM7M (IT9RGY, op)
DL2ARD
IZ8EPX
VK4QH
LZ2HM
IW2HAJ
Single Operator Unlimited, LP, Phone Only
YN5Z (K7ZO, op)
PU5FJR
VP9/KU9C
TG9AJR
HA4XH
LU7MT
G7Y (MØZDZ, op)
F4GGQ
IK3TPP
PY8WW
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3,690,296
3,030,698
2,578,110
2,336,116
1,814,480
1,692,688
1,685,554
1,664,064
1,622,206
1,313,216
1,816,580
636,300
625,860
625,356
547,334
523,440
450,528
447,984
393,926
382,392
311,538
150,800
115,566
104,832
40,404
23,936
18,618
10,506
2,500
528
790,500
735,644
684,944
649,128
578,000
566,488
448,740
427,136
420,854
407,880
701,964
391,710
386,124
328,152
283,200
235,760
228,960
221,408
184,032
183,138
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Single Operator Unlimited, QRP, Phone Only
IZ8GNR
G7KXZ
KP4TC
TA1L
BD9XE
PD5WL
Single Operator Unlimited, HP, CW Only
KP2Q (K3TEJ, op)
EI1Y (EI3KG, op)
EA8/IK1PMR
SN7Q
DL1IAO
ZL2B
SN2M (SP2XF, op)
YU7AV
EI2CN
ZM2IO (ZL3IO, op)
Single Operator Unlimited, LP, CW Only
KP4EJ
CN8KD
EA4TX
PP1CZ
PP5KR
KP3W
PY2NA
ZL1GO
EF8X (EA8AY, op)
YT9W
Single Operator Unlimited, QRP, CW Only
UA4Z
OK2FD
3ZØX
EU6DX
RD3ARU
RZ9CJ
SDØT (SMØTHU, op)
9A2VX
VU2UR
IV3CTS
Multioperator, HP
FY5KE
CW5W
PJ2T
TM6M
LT1F
PX2A
EF8U
EI7M
CX4AT
PT3T
Multioperator, LP
NP2N
VP2VGG
ZW8T
E7C
HB9ON
JR2SCJ
F4FLQ
DL1NKS
OA4O
CW1DC
2014 ARRL 10 Meter Contest
101,640
51,152
15,070
8,170
3,286
2,470
1,601,312
1,178,880
1,110,780
1,026,780
878,480
874,920
863,400
860,928
763,656
751,936
919,080
906,660
750,924
577,220
573,040
572,628
492,440
472,868
406,788
397,184
283,752
122,464
120,328
58,280
32,384
28,448
27,720
23,000
22,372
18,624
4,457,120
3,987,674
3,437,992
3,232,920
2,985,660
2,634,792
2,505,188
2,487,108
2,306,496
2,135,824
2,010,820
1,888,416
1,131,822
677,250
502,304
371,742
351,002
317,856
315,944
297,564
CONTINENTAL LEADERS
Category
Call
Africa
Single Operator, Low Power, Mixed Mode
Single Operator, High Power, Mixed Mode
Single Operator, Low Power, Phone Only
Single Operator, High Power, Phone Only
Single Operator QRP, CW Only
Single Operator, Low Power, CW Only
Single Operator, High Power, CW Only
Multioperator, High Power
Single Operator Unlimited, QRP, Mixed Mode
Single Operator Unlimited, Low Power, Mixed Mode
Single Operator Unlimited, High Power, Mixed Mode
Single Operator Unlimited, High Power, Phone Only
Single Operator Unlimited, Low Power, CW Only
Single Operator Unlimited, High Power, CW Only
Asia
Single Operator QRP, Mixed Mode
Single Operator, Low Power, Mixed Mode
Single Operator, High Power, Mixed Mode
Single Operator QRP, Phone Only
Single Operator, Low Power, Phone Only
Single Operator, High Power, Phone Only
Single Operator QRP, CW Only
Single Operator, Low Power, CW Only
Single Operator, High Power, CW Only
Multioperator, High Power
Multioperator, Low Power
Single Operator Unlimited, QRP, Mixed Mode
Single Operator Unlimited, Low Power, Mixed Mode
Single Operator Unlimited, High Power, Mixed Mode
Single Operator Unlimited, QRP, Phone Only
Single Operator Unlimited, Low Power, Phone Only
Single Operator Unlimited, High Power, Phone Only
Single Operator Unlimited, QRP, CW Only
Single Operator Unlimited, Low Power, CW Only
Single Operator Unlimited, High Power, CW Only
Europe
Single Operator QRP, Mixed Mode
Single Operator, Low Power, Mixed Mode
Single Operator, High Power, Mixed Mode
Single Operator QRP, Phone Only
Single Operator, Low Power, Phone Only
Single Operator, High Power, Phone Only
Single Operator QRP, CW Only
Single Operator, Low Power, CW Only
Single Operator, High Power, CW Only
Multioperator, High Power
Multioperator, Low Power
Single Operator Unlimited, QRP, Mixed Mode
Single Operator Unlimited, Low Power, Mixed Mode
Single Operator Unlimited, High Power, Mixed Mode
Single Operator Unlimited, QRP, Phone Only
Single Operator Unlimited, Low Power, Phone Only
Single Operator Unlimited, High Power, Phone Only
Single Operator Unlimited, QRP, CW Only
Single Operator Unlimited, Low Power, CW Only
Single Operator Unlimited, High Power, CW Only
North America
Single Operator, Low Power, Mixed Mode
Single Operator, High Power, Mixed Mode
Single Operator QRP, Phone Only
Single Operator, Low Power, Phone Only
Single Operator, High Power, Phone Only
Single Operator QRP, CW Only
Single Operator, Low Power, CW Only
Single Operator, High Power, CW Only
Multioperator, High Power
Multioperator, Low Power
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EF8O
ZS6RJ
EA8AH
CT3FQ
ZS6DX
EA8CN
ZS1EL
EF8U
EA8/PD1DX
ZR9C (ZS6WN,
op)
EA8DBM
EA8BVX
CN8KD
EA8/IK1PMR
566,784
451,962
847,700
677,504
124,000
502,500
189,504
2,505,188
104,832
JH3DMQ
JS6RGJ
JH1GBZ
(JH5GHM, op)
JA2MWV
JA7QVI
VR2XAN
(IV3TAN, op)
JA1YNE
(JR1NKN, op)
UN6P
JH3AIU
JA3YBK
JR2SCJ
RUØLAX
JA1BPA
JH5RXS
TA1L
JA8COE
BW2/JP1RIW
(BM2JCC, op)
RZ9CJ
RT9S
UA9AGX
15,704
922,658
ON6QRP
RW7M
EF5T (EA5HT,
op)
CT7AIX
EE7Y (EC7WA,
op)
DR1D (DL3KO,
op)
G3SXW
YT6A
9A5X
TM6M
E7C
RT4W
UX1AA
EA7KW
IZ8GNR
HA4XH
9A1UN
UA4Z
EA4TX
EI1Y (EI3KG, op)
ZF2DX
NP2P (N2TTA,
op)
V31MA
CO6LC
TG9IIN
HI3AA
NP3A
KP2M (KT3Y, op)
ZF1A
NP2N
523,440
3,030,698
64,592
906,660
1,110,780
882,392
8,910
123,648
572,352
189,312
275,100
692,048
1,460,968
371,742
150,800
547,334
1,283,412
8,170
79,464
175,296
28,448
319,548
251,604
236,610
585,620
1,303,574
55,076
423,384
701,220
166,656
580,068
1,042,756
3,232,920
677,250
311,538
636,300
2,336,116
101,640
283,200
790,500
283,752
750,924
1,178,880
2,957,580
2,245,304
388,750
517,374
439,898
1,584
1,268,256
1,329,996
1,434,440
2,010,820
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Single Operator Unlimited, Low Power, Mixed Mode
Single Operator Unlimited, High Power, Mixed Mode
Single Operator Unlimited, QRP, Phone Only
Single Operator Unlimited, Low Power, Phone Only
Single Operator Unlimited, High Power, Phone Only
Single Operator Unlimited, QRP, CW Only
Single Operator Unlimited, Low Power, CW Only
Single Operator Unlimited, High Power, CW Only
Oceania
Single Operator QRP, Mixed Mode
Single Operator, Low Power, Mixed Mode
Single Operator, High Power, Mixed Mode
Single Operator QRP, Phone Only
Single Operator, Low Power, Phone Only
Single Operator, High Power, Phone Only
Single Operator, Low Power, CW Only
Single Operator, High Power, CW Only
Multioperator, High Power
Single Operator Unlimited, Low Power, Mixed Mode
Single Operator Unlimited, High Power, Mixed Mode
Single Operator Unlimited, Low Power, Phone Only
Single Operator Unlimited, High Power, Phone Only
Single Operator Unlimited, Low Power, CW Only
Single Operator Unlimited, High Power, CW Only
South America
Single Operator QRP, Mixed Mode
Single Operator, Low Power, Mixed Mode
Single Operator, High Power, Mixed Mode
Single Operator QRP, Phone Only
Single Operator, Low Power, Phone Only
Single Operator, High Power, Phone Only
Single Operator QRP, CW Only
Single Operator, Low Power, CW Only
Single Operator, High Power, CW Only
Multioperator, High Power
Multioperator, Low Power
Single Operator Unlimited, Low Power, Mixed Mode
Single Operator Unlimited, High Power, Mixed Mode
Single Operator Unlimited, Low Power, Phone Only
Single Operator Unlimited, High Power, Phone Only
Single Operator Unlimited, Low Power, CW Only
Single Operator Unlimited, High Power, CW Only
8P2K (8P6SH,
op)
NP2X
KP4TC
YN5Z (K7ZO, op)
HP1CQ
CO2IZ
KP4EJ
KP2Q (K3TEJ,
op)
358,226
3,690,296
15,070
701,964
81,028
8,400
919,080
1,601,312
YBØANN
ZL3NB
9M6XRO
VK4ATH
VK4LAT
VK2CZ
ZL3TE
ZL1ALZ
VK4NM
VK4TJF
ZM1A (ZL3CW,
op)
YB5BOY
VK4QH
ZL1GO
ZL2B
1,620
9,792
248,248
3,074
158,232
34,840
364,760
335,320
1,366,480
108,000
CE7EEA
HC1WDT
LU6UO
CE3WYZ
YY1YLY
HK1T
LT7H
LU5FF
PY2MC
FY5KE
ZW8T
PY3OZ
P4ØCX
PU5FJR
ZZ5Z (PY5YA,
op)
PP1CZ
HK1MW
4,662
857,280
600,864
18,744
785,880
1,503,252
406,992
272,272
545,832
4,457,120
1,131,822
1,816,580
2,578,110
391,710
1,664,064
260
427,136
472,868
874,920
349,440
577,220
692,736
The fun in talking
The ARRL 10 Meter Contest, like other contests, is like a
giant on-the-air party. Get on the radio and talk to as
many folks as you want, for whatever intent you desire.
To many, the thrill of a few of their QSOs is what makes
it fun. Often it can be just one special QSO that makes
the weekend memorable. Here are post-contest
“soapbox” comments from several stations:
Bob, HSØZIA - Biggest thrill working FG8NY after
coming back from dinner to check the band one last time
Saturday night.
NR3X (Nathan, N4YDU, operator) - Highlight for me
came Saturday morning when I was called by HZ1PS,
FR4NT and 5R8UI consecutively on SSB - that was a
first and probably a last.
Bill, N6ZFO -- Very surprised to be called, on SSB, by
C91C on Sunday
David, EA4AOC - With my simple 100w and end fed
antenna. I was able to do ZL3TE as well as other entities
and American States
For others, they hope to complete their Worked All
States (WAS) journey. To some, their goal is to do it
during the contest weekend. Many operators mention
"Got my last couple of states towards WAS" or "Managed
to work WAS this weekend." A typical comment was
received from Phil, NI7R, "Worked WAS + DC. I was
pleased with my temporary 10 meter dipole, which is
only 8 feet off the ground."
Looking through the logs, 183 stations managed WAS
during the contest. None of these were from Europe
though there were 25 from South America and two each
from New Zealand and Australia. For Europeans, the
challenge from the propagation needed to work Alaska
and Hawaii on 10 meters in December was
insurmountable. However, 17 Europeans did manage to
work all lower 48 states. It is interesting to compare these
WAS accomplishments to 2013. In 2013 only 135
stations managed to accomplish WAS.
Is the increase in 2014 due to propagation? Or, was it due
to the creation of the Unlimited categories in 2014 so that
more stations were using spotting assistance? In 2013,
again no Europeans were able to achieve WAS during
the contest though 26 did work all lower 48. Likely the
best WAS achievement in 2013 belongs to JA7OWD
who took advantage of his QTH in far south Japan to
"Work them All." In fact JA7OWD is about the same
latitude as northern Africa and in 2013, CN3A in
Morocco also managed a WAS during contest weekend.
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Table 1 -- Number of Stations achieving Worked All States
Continent
Africa
Asia
Europe
North America
Oceania
South America
Total
2014
0
0
0
148
10
25
183
2013
2
1
0
92
9
31
135
New Unlimited categories — what fun!
For the competition-oriented operators, the major change
in contest rules for 2014 was the addition of Unlimited
categories. No longer would single operators using
spotting assistance or automated multi-channel decoders
such as the CW Skimmer software by VE3NEA
(“Skimmers”) have to enter in the Multioperator category.
This change has been requested for years. The contest
organizers listened and made the change by creating a
full set of Single-Operator Unlimited categories. Was the
change successful? Did the word about the change get
out? Did operators utilize Unlimited categories in order
to have more fun? You bet they did!
Almost one-third of the entrants participated in the new
Unlimited categories. The change in entries between
2013 and 2014 tells the story. Not surprisingly, the
Multioperator categories showed a big drop from 2013 to
2014 as the single operators moved to their own
categories. Additionally, it looks like some single
operators who wanted to operate in an Unlimited way but
held back because they didn't want to compete against
the Multioperator teams, also took advantage and shifted
into Unlimited categories. For the first year of a new
scheme, it was very successful.
2014 ARRL 10 Meter Contest
Digging more into the submitted entries shows how the
Unlimited categories were used. By comparing the three
Single-Operator categories of Mixed Mode, Phone Only,
and CW Only between 2013 and 2014 a few clear trends
pop out. First, high power operators took advantage of
Unlimited operation more than low power or QRP. This
makes sense. If someone is going to grab spots off a
cluster or skimmer to "Search and Pounce" he or she will
usually be more successful with high power than with
low power or QRP. To a QRP operator grabbing and
QSYing to a spot does not make much sense if you can't
break the pileup when you get there.
Second, Mixed Mode operators took advantage of
Unlimited categories more than Phone Only or CW Only.
This may be attributed to prior years in which
Multioperator categories were only Mixed Mode.
Perhaps when the true Unlimited categories were created
those operators just operated the way they did in the past.
Or perhaps, since Mixed Mode operators have more
spots to chase down, they just naturally tend to Unlimited
operation. Again, it is just one of things that is more fun
to do!
Update on Mexico
Another recent rule change occurred in 2010 when the 32
Mexican (XE) states were added to the multiplier list.
Since then XE contest activity has grown nicely with a
total of 38 XE logs submitted in 2014 containing 21,000
QSOs — up from 33 logs in 2013 and 30 in 2012. With
competitors worldwide chasing down these multipliers,
XE operators have realized they will be very popular
when they get on the air. As Luis, XE2B, related after the
contest: "I managed to work DXCC (106 countries) plus
all stateside and just missed one VE province (NU).” He
has to be one of the very few stations that managed both
DXCC and WAS over the weekend. Well done, Luis! As
he also described, "There were several instances that I
was asked to repeat the exchange twice or more, because
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they were asking for a number and seemed confused
when I was sending my state abbreviation." As a
reminder for everyone, XE stations give a three letter
state abbreviation for their exchange. A list of the
abbreviations can be found on the ARRL contest website
in the rules for the 10 Meter Contest.
Affiliated Club Competition
Club competition continues to be a popular and fun
aspect of this contest. Operators get a chance to be part of
a team while operating from their home QTH. It can be
quite motivating to get on the air to make some points for
your club or to compete for honors against fellow club
members. Many operators mention in their soapbox
comments something similar to, "Wanted to get on the
air to make some points for our club." Just another way
to have some fun on a December weekend.
A total of 1,193 operators submitted logs that were also
credited towards club competition. This means that 47%
of the W/VE operators were part of one of the 78
different clubs that participated. Way to go club
organizers!
In the Local Club category the Central Virginia Contest
Club (CVCC) took top honors among the 37 clubs
entered. In doing so they repeated their first place finish
from 2013 and this makes it 3 out of the last 4 years they
have won. Their 9 members combined for more than 5
million points, the only Local club to do so. They also
were the only club to exceed 4 million points! CVCC's
success formula? High-scoring members. A couple of
clubs had more operators than they did, but their more
than 600,000 points per member was second best of all
clubs and this carried them to the top.
Table 2 - Entrants from the Central Virginia Contest Club
Station call sign and score in 1,000s of points
K4OSO (27) N3UA (1,684) W4ML (1,843) WA4PGM (173)
KG4W (502) W4HZ (1,010) W4PM (201) WD4LBR (95)
KJ4IT (2)
In the equally popular Medium Club category, 35 clubs
fought it out. In the end, the 40 members of the Frankfort
Radio Club (FRC) once again finished ahead of the 47
members from second place Arizona Outlaws Contest
Club (AOCC). FRC's success formula? A combination of
participation and high-scoring members. They had the
second highest turnout in the Medium Club category and
the members had, on average, scores 26% higher than
AOCC's.
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Table 3 - Entrants from the Frankfort Radio Club
Station call sign and score in 1,000s of points
AA3B (652)
K3TUF (2)
N2MM (1,075) W2ID (4)
AB2E (3)
K3WW (2,106) N2NT (3,147) W2LE (348)
K2RET (44) K9RS (1,295) N3DXX (636) W2MMD (211)
K2SQS (6)
KB3Z (20)
N3KR (116) W2NO (26)
K2TW (591) KC2LSD (10) N3RS (1,320) W2RDS (25)
K3ATO (517) KD3TB (185) NA2JM (18) W3BGN (355)
K3IPK (383) KF3B (1,569) NE3I (74)
W3FIZ (12)
K3JD (62)
KU2C (111) NK3Y (185)
W3KB (419)
K3MD (27)
KW3F (90)
NW3H (106) W3UC (109)
K3PP (337)
N2ED (171) NY3C (93)
WG3J (193)
In the Unlimited Club category six clubs battled it out.
Coming out on top again for the fourth year in a row
were the 119 members of the Potomac Valley Radio
Club (PVRC) who bested second place Yankee Clipper
Contest Club (YCCC) by a wide margin. The PVRC
repeated their regular success formula by overwhelming
their competition with the sheer number of participating
members. In fact their average score per log was only 3rd
best and the YCCC average score per log was almost
100,000 points higher than PVRC, but if you can get 119
members turning in logs like the PVRC did that will
certainly push up your club score. Congratulations to all
the clubs and their organizers.
Table 4 - Entrants from the Potomac Valley Radio Club
Station call sign and score in 1,000s of points
AA4FU (244) K4XL (222)
N4FX (510)
W3DF (122)
AA4KD (1)
K4YCR (16) N4MM (164) W3DQ (1)
AK4D (15)
K7SV (181)
N4PD (506) W3FA (14)
K1DQV (277) KA3JLW (3) N4QWF (2)
W3GVX (51)
K1RH (493) KA4RRU (137) N4QX (1)
W3IDT (129)
K1RY (14)
KB3WD (1,437)N4RA (11)
W3KX (624)
K1SE (151)
KD4D (1,322) N4UEZ (124) W3LL (599)
K1ZW (14)
KE3X (5)
N4VA (421)
W3OU (258)
K3AJ (840)
KE4S (296)
N4XYZ (65) W3SFG (152)
K3CCR (230) KE4VH (19) N4ZR (113)
W3UL (33)
K3DNE (389) KF7NN (1)
N8AID (77)
W3US (94)
K3KU (44)
KG4NEL (1) N8HM (46)
W3YY (69)
K3MZ (36)
KK4UNZ (61) N8II (2,078) W4CB (584)
K3OQ (502) KU1T (29)
NA1DX (169) W4EE (105)
K3RA (1,385) N1LN (501)
NC4S (14)
W4GDG (8)
K3TN (420)
N1RM (19)
ND3D (50)
W4JVN (20)
K3WI (250)
N3AM (147) NN3RP (145) W4PK (320)
K3YDX (173) N3HEE (19) NN3W (534) W4TG (6)
K3ZO (848)
N3JT (18)
NN4RB (11) W4VIC (91)
K3ZU (753)
N3OC (1,622) NR3X (1,185) W4YE (202)
K4ALE (17)
N3QE (802) NR4C (37)
WA2VQV (69)
K4EET (24)
N3ST (36)
NR4M (1,007) WA2WDT (83)
K4EU (404)
N3VN (7)
NS3T (282)
WA3AER (12)
K4FJ (1,884) N3VOP (88) WØCN (139) WA3RGH (2)
K4FPF (17)
N3WD (56)
WØUCE (80) WA4JUK (370)
K4FTO (40) N3XL (22)
W1IE (37)
WB2ZAB (189)
K4MI (145)
N3ZV (76)
W2CDO (139) WJ9B (1,049)
K4MIL (53)
N4AF (1061) W2GPS (1)
WV4V (53)
K4ORD (325) N4CW (299) W3BW (8)
WX3B (493)
K4TMC (54) N4DJ (409)
W3CB (184)
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Affiliated Club Competition
Entries
Score
Unlimited
Potomac Valley Radio Club
Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Florida Contest Group
Minnesota Wireless Assn
Northern California Contest Club
Society of Midwest Contesters
119
69
69
82
59
63
32,894,468
25,906,636
22,266,758
13,753,212
12,311,710
9,528,144
40
47
39
27
31
15
14
12
10
15
19
10
18
12
18
18
13
25
12
16
12
12
9
19
5
4
4
3
10
6
6
5
6
7
3
16,651,752
14,331,432
11,786,532
9,254,746
9,191,668
6,428,628
6,241,686
5,575,504
5,301,270
5,183,018
5,114,306
4,860,048
4,771,892
4,594,208
4,578,236
4,274,432
3,852,028
3,848,906
3,226,372
2,684,648
2,629,802
2,547,606
2,132,214
1,885,068
1,700,706
1,608,928
1,497,546
1,336,976
1,158,946
1,078,062
1,046,738
486,242
220,100
195,408
161,336
9
3
5
5
8
9
10
9
4
5,538,040
3,040,388
2,349,080
1,790,274
1,586,512
1,497,914
1,189,296
1,167,016
1,127,490
9
1,113,418
8
10
5
5
7
5
4
4
4
6
6
4
1,059,168
1,008,678
885,248
755,410
737,448
533,416
499,752
478,588
411,278
401,398
382,554
345,368
Medium
Frankford Radio Club
Arizona Outlaws Contest Club
Contest Club Ontario
Southern California Contest Club
DFW Contest Group
Georgia Contest Group
Mad River Radio Club
ORCA DX And Contest Club
Central Texas DX and Contest Club
Grand Mesa Contesters of Colorado
Carolina DX Association
Maritime Contest Club
Alabama Contest Group
Louisiana Contest Club
Western Washington DX Club
Mother Lode DX/Contest Club
Hudson Valley Contesters and DXers
Tennessee Contest Group
Contest Group Du Quebec
Willamette Valley DX Club
Utah DX Association
South East Contest Club
Order of Boiled Owls of New York
Hampden County Radio Assn
Saskatchewan Contest Club
North Texas Contest Club
Mississippi Valley DX/Contest Club
Texas DX Society
Rochester (NY) DX Assn
North Coast Contesters
Kentucky Contest Group
CTRI Contest Group
Six Meter Club of Chicago
Swamp Fox Contest Group
Badger Contesters
Local
Central Virginia Contest Club
Bozinga DX and Contest Club
Radiosport Manitoba
Redwood Empire DX Assn
Kansas City Contest Club
Lincoln ARC
Bristol (TN) ARC
599 DX Association
Hilltop Transmitting Assn
Northeast Maryland Amateur Radio
Contest Society
Spokane DX Association
Sussex County ARC
Delara Contest Team
Meriden ARC
Niagara Frontier Radiosport
North Carolina DX and Contest Club
Murgas ARC
Midland ARC
Metro DX Club
Contoocook Valley Radio Club
West Park Radiops
Portage County Amateur Radio Service
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Brazos Valley ARC
Granite State ARA
Athens County ARA
Columbia-Montour ARC
Sterling Park ARC
West Allis RAC
South Jersey DX Assn
North Fulton ARL
Skyview Radio Society
Bergen ARA
Pottstown Area ARC
Ventura County Amateur Radio Society
Rappahannock Valley Amateur Radio
Club
Peterborough Amateur Radio Club
Wireless Association of South Hills
5
7
5
3
4
6
3
6
6
7
6
3
315,710
258,204
204,814
201,168
163,216
161,282
158,268
135,566
104,242
93,782
90,258
84,722
4
71,474
3
3
70,280
48,184
Close Races
Competitive types always enjoy a close race. Watching
two teams battle on their chosen field down to the last
seconds of the game is just naturally exciting. The 2014
ARRL 10 Meter contest contained an incredible number
of such close races for a category-winning high score.
Usually in any given year there are one or two close
races. 2014, for whatever reason, had nine such races as
summarized in the table below.
Table 5 - Close Races in 2014
Category
First Place
Second Place
US Single-Op, Low Power, Mixed Mode
KU2M
KB3WD
US Single-Op, QRP, Mixed Mode
WA6FGV
N1CC
US Single-Op, High Power, Phone
NR5M
WB9Z
US Single-Op, QRP, Phone
W6QU(W8QZA, op) KB5KYJ
US Single-Op, High Power, CW
N2IC
K1TO
US Multiop, High Power
NX5M
N2NT
US Multiop, Low Power
NØNI
WW4LL
Canada Single-Op, Unlimited, High Power, CW
VE1OP
VE5UF
DX Single-Op, Unlimited, Low Power, CW
KP4EJ
CN8KD
Victory Margin
0.7%
0.5%
0.4%
0.3%
0.3%
2.2%
0.2%
0.1%
1.4%
Note that in many cases the scoring difference between
the top two finishers was less than 0.5%. This means that
a couple of QSOs here or another multiplier there made
the difference between first and second. In the closest
race of all, between VE1OP and VE5UF in the Canada
Single-Operator Unlimited, High Power, CW Only
category the difference between first and second place
was essentially a single QSO. How's that for a close race
in a 48-hour event? In other cases, though the race was
not quite that close it still came down to the final minutes
to determine who was going to take first place. Let's take
a look at three such races for enjoyment and education.
The first two races were Multioperator battles.
Historically, Multioperator categories seem to generate
tight races. Usually they have enough operators that
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keeping the station on the air is not a competitive
variable. Though as we will see, if the whole gang takes
an hour off for a meal or some other event, that can
impact a tight race. What is interesting is to study is how
they work through their strategic decisions: When to run
versus look for multipliers, when to operate Phone versus
CW, how to create a station setup optimized for running
on one mode while grabbing multipliers on another.
A win at the wire
The first race was an epic one for top honors in the US
Multioperator, Low Power category between NØNI and
WW4LL. NØNI is no stranger to close races. In 2013
they almost ran down KD2RD for second place in the
same category. In that race during the final 10 hours
NØNI closed most, but not quite all, of a 300,000 point
lead KD2RD had at daybreak on Sunday. In the final
review of that race it looked like NØNI could have pulled
it out simply by spending more time on the air. They fell
short of KD2RD by only 20 QSOs. They also had 8
hours less time on the air than KD2RD. Could they have
found another 20 QSOs somewhere? Probably. We will
see if NØNI applied what they learned in 2013 to 2014.
In 2014 NØNI was battling it out with WW4LL. Like
NØNI versus KD2RD in 2013 this race was also one of
east versus west. WW4LL is in Georgia and NØNI in
Iowa. So WW4LL had the early sunrise advantage by
about an hour. They are also further south than NØNI so
additionally they had about 45 more minutes of daylight
than NØNI.
raw scores on the screen. These charts have been
adjusted to include the impacts of log checking for each
station in order to compare their final scores. Many times
the log checking process can have quite an impact on
scores, but that's a different story.
In order to set up the story of this close race it is first
worth looking at how it ended up — no use waiting for
the story to unfold. In the end, NØNI ended up winning
by 2,910 points which is about 3 CW QSOs or 1
multiplier. A measly 0.2% was the difference in scores
between the two stations after 48 hours. Knowing this is
how it ended let's see how the weekend went.
Looking at this race's timeline, it got off to a slow start.
For both stations the contest started after sunset Friday
night and they made very few QSOs. Low power and
marginal openings usually result in pretty low rates.
Between the two stations they made a grand total of 62
QSOs and neither station carved out an advantage over
the other.
The real race began at sunrise on Saturday morning.
WW4LL was on the air right at their sunrise and found
the band open to Europe. For the next 30 minutes they
had an early advantage over NØNI. The guys in Iowa
could only sit by their rigs waiting for the band to open.
NØNI finally got a QSO in the log at 12:55 UTC and
were also working Europe right away. This was fully 40
minutes before their sunrise so NØNI was clearly "out of
the blocks" early and racing.
As the morning progressed WW4LL leveraged their East
Coast location and by the end of the 1800 UTC hour had
built a 75,000 point lead. At that time they had 485 QSOs
and 174 multipliers compared to NØNI's 409 and 143.
By this time the band was closed to Europe — NØNI
made their last Europe QSO at 1700 and WW4LL at
1725 UTC — changing the race dynamics.
The timeline chart above tracks the back and forth battle
between these two stations over the weekend. What it
shows is how the two stations scores compared at the end
of each hour during the contest. If you could look over
the shoulder of the operators at each station and view
their scores and compare them, this is what you would
have seen. Actually, though you would have seen their
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Working up, down, and across the Americas is what
counted now and NØNI responded by gaining ground on
WW4LL for the rest of the day. By the end of the 2200
UTC hour, just after sunset for both stations, WW4LL's
lead was down to 7,000 points. An hour later NØNI had
their first lead of the contest and was out in front by
12,000 points. NØNI took advantage of their more
westerly location to make more Asian QSOs than
WW4LL.
During the 0000 UTC hour on Sunday the two stations
made key strategic decisions. NØNI appears to have
worked the band at a relatively steady rate until 0015
UTC when they went off the air for an hour except for a
single QSO at 0027 UTC. They came back on the air at
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0113 UTC were able to make only 8 QSOs in the next 30
minutes then closed down again at 0143 UTC. They did
come back on just before 0600 UTC and made another 9
QSOs over 30 minutes mostly to the south of them.
WW4LL also appears to have been on the air as the 0000
UTC hour began though working at a slower rate than
NØNI. They then took a 90 minute break, not returning
to the air until 0147 UTC at which time they began a
steady rate of QSOs until 0340 UTC when they shut
down for the night. During that period they made 70
QSOs mostly up and down the East Coast but with a few
reaching the West Coast. This allowed them to regain a
30,000 point lead over NØNI when both stations shut
down for the night.
Looking back at this interesting period you have to
wonder: Did WW4LL leave some QSOs on the table
during their 90 minute break? After all they were still
working them when they shut down and started working
them when they got back on the air.
Did WW4LL miss an opening later in the evening?
NØNI had an opening later as did N2NT up the coast in
New Jersey. (We will look at N2NT's own close race
next.)
Did NØNI also leave some QSOs on the table during
their 60 minute break? They were working stations up to
when they took a break and did so again after getting
back on the air.
Similarly did NØNI miss some possible QSOs while off
the air for 4 hours before finding the band open around
0600 UTC?
Regardless, as dawn approached Sunday morning,
WW4LL held a 30,000 point lead over NØNI. If the
same scoring pattern was followed on Sunday as on
Saturday then WW4LL would end up on top. They were
ahead of NØNI at 0000 UTC Sunday. Would they still be
ahead at 0000 UTC Monday at the final bell?
Sunday though began much different than Saturday.
WW4LL logged their first contact at 1127 UTC, an hour
earlier than on Saturday and a full hour before sunrise.
This gave them a full 90 minute advantage over NØNI
who didn't make their first QSO until 1304 UTC, so it
was WW4LL who came blasting out of the blocks on
Sunday. They had 30 QSOs and 4 new multipliers by the
time NØNI logged their first contact. WW4LL then put
together back-to-back 95 QSO hours during the 14001500 UTC stretch, their second best hourly rates of the
contest. During the three hours 1300 thru 1500 UTC they
made 260 QSOs and logged 33 multipliers as compared
to NØNI's 159 and 36 respectively. Suddenly WW4LL
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had moved out to a 180,000 point lead as the contest
entered the last 8 hours. They had tripled their advantage
over NØNI at the same point on Saturday. Things were
looking very good for WW4LL.
However, as the morning turned to afternoon and
darkness fell on Europe, the tides again turned in NØNI's
favor. Starting in the 1600 UTC hour both stations were
operating primarily CW to maximize points per QSO.
During the 1700 UTC hour NØNI logged 107 QSOs, the
highest hourly rate for either station all weekend.
WW4LL had a relatively weak hour with just 52 QSOs
and their lead quickly shrunk to just over 70,000 points.
NØNI chipped another 10,000 points off their deficit
during the 1800 UTC hour. NØNI also seemed to have a
longer opening into Europe than WW4LL. NØNI worked
their last European station at 18:22 UTC and additionally
had several Finnish (OH) stations call in later during the
well-known late afternoon Scandinavian opening the
western US sometimes has. WW4LL worked their last
European at 17:53 UTC.
WW4LL responded with a strong 1900 UTC to build
their lead back up to 80,000 points. Then WW4LL had
one of those, "What happened in that hour?" periods
making just 35 QSOs during the 2000 UTC hour.
Looking at their log they spent the whole hour S&Ping.
Were they trying to run and just could not get a run
going? Were they hoping to track down multipliers not
appearing on the spotting networks? The log does not tell
that story, but whatever it was, it was the turning point of
the contest. NØNI powered on and cut WW4LL's lead by
15,000 points.
From that point on NØNI was sprinting to the finish
while WW4LL was trying to hold on with NØNI's
footsteps coming up from behind. With one hour to go,
WW4LL still had a 48,000 point lead. At this point in the
contest 48,000 points represented about 40 CW QSOs or
about 8 multipliers. That's still a pretty good lead. But,
would it be enough to hold off the hard charging NØNI?
Remember in 2013 NØNI was chasing down KD2RD
and fell just short. What would happen this time?
During the last hour NØNI turned in a very respectable
70 QSO performance, all on CW, as well as tracking
down 5 more multipliers. The team at WW4LL could
only manage 41 QSOs and 3 multipliers. As during the
2000 UTC hour, WW4LL spent the hour largely in S&P
mode. NØNI was solidly running as well as making
quick QSYs to work additional stations in between run
QSOs. Literally in the last five minutes of the contest
NØNI passed WW4LL for victory. The final margin of
victory for NØNI was 2,910 points. This is about 3 CW
QSOs, 6 Phone QSOs, or 1 mult. That's a close race.
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So, did NØNI learn from their 2013 experiences? In 2013
they spent 23 hours and 44 minutes on the air. In 2014
they extended that by 1:20 and spent 25 hours and 5
minutes on the air. Could they have won without that
extra on air time? No way!
What about the jumble of off times each station took on
Saturday night? What if WW4LL had stayed on the air
during their 90 minute break? Could they have made
enough QSOs to hold off NØNI? Absolutely. (The late
Saturday night opening was an interesting and important
period of the contest. It is examined in a separate section
of this article.)
A heavyweight slugfest
The next race was for top honors in the US
Multioperator, High Power category. The contenders in
this match were NX5M in Texas versus N2NT in New
Jersey. Adding to the battle was the fact that this 10
Meter contest was to be NX5M's last before tearing the
station down, so Bob and his team really wanted to finish
on top. So how did the race play out? Among the close
race battles this was not the closest, but it was interesting
and exciting just the same.
this case because N2NT's QTH is much further east than
NX5M's, their sunrise was an hour earlier and this let
them get off to a quicker start each day relative to
NX5M. Conversely, NX5M's more westerly QTH meant
they had a later sunset and they would still have
propagation well after the band closed down at N2NT.
Also importantly, NX5M's QTH is further south than
N2NT's and thus they had about 50 minutes more
daylight each day. So the relative differences were
similar to those of NØNI and WW4LL except in this case
the western station had the total daylight advantage.
Taking advantage of their earlier sunrise, N2NT jumped
out to a lead through both more QSOs and more
multipliers. At the end of the 1300 UTC hour on
Saturday they had a 164,000 point lead over NX5M. This
would turn out to be their largest lead of the weekend. As
the propagation strengthened, NX5M fought back,
importantly by picking up many of the multipliers that
N2NT already logged. By the end of the 1600 UTC hour
NX5M had cut N2NT's lead in half.
N2NT responded in the next hour with 210 QSOs, their
best hourly count of the contest. They took advantage of
the band being open for them to Europe, Africa, North
and South America at the same time. They also spent the
hour on phone and experienced the higher QSO rates that
phone operation typically generates. As a result, they
grew their lead back up over 140,000 points.
Starting at the left end of the timeline you can see that
not much was going on during the first 10 hours of the
contest. For both stations the contest started after sunset
and there were not a whole lot of QSOs to be had during
Friday evening with each station having very similar
results. When N2NT shut down for the night they had
189 QSOs and 59 multipliers whereas NX5M had 162
QSOs and 59 multipliers. A slight lead for N2NT but the
real race began at sunrise on Saturday morning.
However, from that point through the rest of Saturday
and well into Sunday the contest belonged to the team at
NX5M. They gained on N2NT for 13 straight hours.
During those 13 hours NX5M made 932 QSOs and
logged 57 multipliers to N2NT's 526 and 46 respectively.
It also appears that NX5M exploited the Saturday
evening opening to a greater extent than N2NT. During
the 0000 UTC to 0700 UTC period NX5M more than
doubled N2NT's QSO count. As an example, NX5M
made 149 QSOs in the 0400 and 0500 UTC hours, fully
5 to 6 hours after sunset. During that period N2NT
managed just 13. NX5M also kept on the air for the
whole period whereas N2NT took a one hour break
during the 0000 UTC hour Sunday. A team dinner
perhaps? An equipment issue? We will see if this
operating gap had a potential impact on the score. The
net result of all of this is that when both stations shut
down for the night on Saturday NX5M had built up a
290,000 point lead. They were showing 1,755 QSOs and
286 multipliers to N2NT's 1,632 and 254 respectively.
For the 10 Meter Contest, understanding sunrise, sunset,
and total daylight is important to understanding a close
race. 10 meters is typically a daylight band except in
cases of extreme solar activity or when E-skip occurs. In
As Sunday dawned, N2NT was up and at it early. The
band opened to Europe right away and their first QSO
was logged at 1128 UTC, fully an hour earlier than
NX5M. NX5M did not make their first European QSO
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until 1255 UTC. Once again N2NT used their
propagation advantage to gain on NX5M notably by
grabbing needed multipliers. By the end of the 1400
UTC hour they were once again in the lead. By the end
of the 1800 UTC hour they had created an over 110,000
point advantage. More importantly their lead at this point
was 20% greater than it had been at the same point on
Saturday.
So, N2NT had improved their position. The question
was, "Would it hold up against the inevitable gains
NX5M would make after sunset at N2NT?" The two
teams more or less fought to a draw over the next couple
of hours with N2NT retaining their lead. When the sun
set on N2NT they still had a 67,000 point lead over
NX5M at the end of the 2100 UTC hour. This also was
bigger than their lead at sunset on Saturday. In fact it was
over double their lead on Saturday! But, would it hold
up?
During the last two hours NX5M operated almost
exclusively in phone mode with its high rate of 2-point
QSOs. By the end of the 2200 UTC hour they had cut
N2NT's lead to 21,000 pointx. So the race came down to
the last hour — would N2NT's lead hold up? During the
last 60 minutes NX5M was able to make 153 QSOs and
log 5 multipliers to N2NT's 38 and 4 respectively. Likely
somewhere around the 23:15 mark NX5M passed N2NT
"going into the final straightaway" and "ran through the
tape" to a 70,000 point victory a little more than 2%
ahead. Though not as close as the NØNI versus WW4LL
race this was still a good one. It came down to the last
hour.
Single-Ops rock to the top
Now let's turn to a Single-Operator battle. The race for
the top spot in the US Single-Operator, High Power,
Phone category between two superb operators was about
as close as NØNI versus WW4LL. In the end George,
NR5M, edged out Jerry, WB9Z, by 3,630 points or just
0.4% of their final scores. The score difference could
have gone the other way with a single multiplier more by
WB9Z or 10 more QSOs. Let's take a look at the race for
more insight.
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The locations of these two stations gave the race a
distinctly different character than the others. WB9Z is in
Illinois which is both north and east of NR5M in Texas.
Their sunrises were within a few minutes of each other
but NR5M's sunset was about an hour later, giving him
an advantage on total daylight hours.
As was the pattern in the other races, the first dozen or so
hours of the contest were uneventful. The contest started
after dark for both stations, there really was not much of
any opening on Friday night, and both operators awoke
at dawn on Saturday morning ready to start the real
contest. NR5M was up early and on the air at 1152 UTC,
an hour and 20 minutes before sunrise. George made 20
or so QSOs over the next 90 minutes getting a bit of lead
over WB9Z who didn't make a QSO until 1311 UTC.
The early morning advantage went to NR5M who built a
23,000 point lead with a higher rate and stronger opening
into Europe at the end of the 1400 UTC hour. By then,
the band was in better shape for WB9Z; his rate grew,
multipliers found their way into his log, and he gained on
NR5M for the next 6 hours. At the end of the 2000 UTC
hour WB9Z had a 34,000 point lead over NR5M, which
would turn out to be his biggest lead of the weekend.
During the 2100 UTC hour it looks like WB9Z took a
30-minute break which allowed NR5M to gain back
some ground. In the 2200 UTC hour each station's rates
were similar but NR5M added 6 more multipliers so that
by hour's end he was only 15,000 points behind WB9Z.
The 2300 UTC hour was also “advantage NR5M” as his
sunset was an hour after WB9Z's, allowing him to make
50 more QSOs during the hour. So as the first day ended,
WB9Z had a 12,000 point lead over NR5M. The race
could still go either way. What would the second day
hold?
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As Sunday began at 0000 UTC, WB9Z was running at a
rate of about 60 QSO per hour. Not a great rate but not
bad for being 90 minutes after his sunset. Then at 0020
UTC he went QRT for the night except for a single QSO
at 0213 UTC with W5PR in Texas. On the other hand
NR5M kept plugging away even as rates inevitably fell
after sunset. His 0100 and 0200 UTC hours contained a
total of 32 QSOs and at one point he went 20 minutes
without a QSO.
However, by being on the air he also caught the Saturday
night opening as it unfolded, beginning just before 0300
UTC. His Texas QTH was seemingly in "The Right
Place at the Right time.” In the four hours of 0300
through 0600 NR5M logged 198 QSOs. He even worked
a multiplier by catching KE5GCH in nearby New
Mexico when the skip became really short. When NR5M
called it quits for the night he had built up a 64,000 point
lead. Catching this evening opening is probably what
won the contest for NR5M. What happened at WB9Z?
He did make that one QSO at 0213 UTC, but that was
before the late night opening really turned on. WB9Z is
very much located in the area where other folks were
making QSOs, so it looks like Jerry just missed the
action.
As Sunday dawned NR5M was again on the air early
with WB9Z waiting until his sunrise. In the same pattern
as Saturday, NR5M gained on WB9Z in the early hours
and at the end of the 1400 UTC hour had extended his
lead to 81,000 points. The lead moved out to 89,000
points at the end of the 1700 UTC hour. It was then
WB9Z's turn and he gained on NR5M in each remaining
hour of the contest. Each station's QSO rates were
relatively similar but WB9Z was doing some aggressive
multiplier hunting and this paid off with logging 23
multipliers in the last 6 hours. Comparatively, NR5M
spent the whole time running and only logged 3 new
multipliers. Could WB9Z catch NR5M?
NR5M was on the air for more than 33 hours as
compared to WB9Z's 23 hours. In this case the old adage
of "Keeping your Butt in the Chair" was likely a factor in
the final standing. Could WB9Z have made another 10
QSOs by spending more time on their air? Very likely.
Looking at the final scores of the two stations you can
see a bit about their contest strategy as well as how they
adapted to their locations. Relative to WB9Z, NR5M was
QSO rich and multiplier poor. On the other hand, relative
to NR5M, WB9Z was QSO poor and multiplier rich.
NR5M took advantage of his longer daylight hours and
more southerly location to make more QSOs. Notably he
had 350 more QSOs with North America than WB9Z.
(200 of those were made during the late Saturday night
period!) WB9Z actually did better into Europe than
NR5M by 165 QSOs which is a testament to WB9Z's
excellent station. NR5M spent more time CQing and let
the mults come to him. WB9Z spent more time turning
the dial looking for multipliers. In the end WB9Z had 17
multipliers more than NR5M.
Was it WB9Z's multiplier hunting that made the
difference? Of these 17 additional multipliers, 11 were
with Mexican states and Jerry also found Labrador and
Newfoundland which George didn't. In this case, WB9Z
took advantage of his location, especially for the
Mexican multipliers. NR5M is just too close to Mexico
to reliably work those XE multipliers. Though it is hard
to say, in the end it looks like NR5M's "CQ and let the
mults come to me" strategy was just about as successful
as WB9Z's "Go and find the mults.” Over half of
WB9Z's multiplier advantage was with XE states that
NR5M could not work. After netting out the XE
multipliers WB9Z did work six more than NR5M, which
in a close race is significant. And, as we know, if WB9Z
had found just one more multiplier the race would have
gone the other way.
Additional Analysis and Insights
WB9Z had a great last hour catching a nice Asian
opening, made 132 QSOs, and grabbed 6 multipliers. But
when the clock struck midnight, NR5M had managed to
hold off WB9Z. Not by much — just 3,630 points of his
earlier lead was left. This difference represented just
0.4% of their final scores. One single multiplier or 10
more QSOs by WB9Z would have tipped the race in his
favor. Looking back at the race is there anything to
learn?
The biggest story line, and likely where NR5M won the
race, was during the late Saturday night opening. NR5M
looked like he was going to stay in his chair until he
knew the band was dead and thus was there when it
sprung to life. Looking at the complete contest weekend,
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In the four years I have written about the ARRL 10
Meter Contest, each year I have provided additional indepth analysis beyond the results and people. The intent
being to provide insight into contest strategy and
planning, how the 10 meter band behaves, or just
something to satisfy my, and hopefully your, curiosity
and inquisitiveness. These articles can be found on the
ARRL website in the 10 Meter Contest Expanded
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2011
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A Skimmer View of the Contest — looking at
Europe, Asia, and South America openings
Skimmer Spots Counts as a way to Predict
Scores?
Phone versus CW Mix — A magic formula?
A Bit of Contest History
2012
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A Skimmer View of the Contest — looking at
the North America to Europe Opening as well as
some perspectives on Skimmer spot quality and
usage.
Contest Planning Insights — characterizing the
locations and activity levels in the US by state.
The raw data to build these views was extracted from
submitted logs by a Python program. The raw data was
then input into Excel for further processing and
formatting. This was then output and read by an R
program to build the maps. I specifically tackled the
learning of R because it has the ability to build the type
of maps I needed — which by the way are formally
called Choropleth maps. (An example of one map is
shown below) One map was created for each 30 minute
period during the contest. All of these maps were
assembled into an animated movie through Microsoft
Movie Maker. Each movie lasts a bit less than two
minutes.
2013
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A look into the North America to Europe
opening
Contest logging program usage
This year I will take a look at the following topics:
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Animated movies of propagation from the US to
major contest areas.
A look at late evening activity in the US and its
impact on three close races
A updated look at contest logging program usage
New world records established in 2014
How many stations really were on the air and
how many QSOs were made?
Before getting into the analysis let me review the tools I
use. Since I wrote last year's article, and during the "off
season", I spent hours and hours developing a completely
new set of analysis tools. Gone is the 27-year-old copy of
QuickBasic. In its place is a much more modern toolset
centered on the Python and R programming languages. In
no way would I claim I am proficient in either, after all I
am not a software engineer, but I was able to get them to
work well enough to do what I want. Hopefully you will
enjoy what I have coaxed these programming tools to do.
If you are interested in learning more, send me an email
(see the article title).
Animated propagation movies
Leading with what I consider the best analysis, let's look
at a breakthrough way to view propagation. When I
started working on the new tool set I had this analysis in
mind: I just knew there should be a way to build, in
essence, a movie that portrays how propagation across
the US plays out across the whole contest weekend. As a
metric for propagation I used "What is the average QSO
rate of stations in each state with a given target area
during a certain time period.”
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Of course the challenge then became how to share these
movies with you. With the right tools they could be
embedded into the PDF document but it would become a
pretty large file, leading to long download times. Better
to post the videos on a video sharing site, like Vimeo,
and provide the links to them as I have done. You may
view the movies from the following links. Depending on
your browser, PDF viewer, and operating system you
may be able to do automatically load the movies. If that
does not work, just copy the URL below into your
browser, or go to the Vimeo site and search for the
videos with these ID Numbers.
Some of these movies start out kind of slow. For
example, the European movie does not show anything for
a while because the first QSOs between the US and
Europe don't happen until many hours into the contest.
Have patience and allow each movie to play through.
United States to Europe:
United States to North America:
United States to South America:
United States to Asia:
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These movies pretty well tell the story of how 10 meter
propagation from around the world washes across the US
during mid-December. From Europe, the band first opens
on the East Coast. The opening then moves east to west
as sunrise moves across the US. The path then closes
down about the same time for all as this is caused by
sunset in Europe. The reverse happens with Asia. The
path opens up, more or less, across the whole US at the
same time. The driving factor is sunrise in Japan. Then
the path closes down east to west as sunset moves across
the US. I will let you draw your own conclusions from
here in terms of more detail and the other geographies.
Once these tools are in place and additional data sets
obtained, more analysis is possible. The only limiting
factors are time and an ability to actually understand the
results. For example, a favorite line of discussion among
contesters is "Propagation was better last year! You
should have seen it then.” (Or conversely, "Propagation
was better this year!). With the tools and data it is
possible to create a movie which might answer those
questions. For example, here is a movie that compares
propagation with Europe during the 2013 contest to that
during the 2014 contest.
were true? Were there more QSOs on Saturday night
than on Friday night? Luckily I had the log data to
answer the question. It was already extracted from the
logs to build the "North America working US"
propagation movie just described. As shown below, sure
enough, the evening opening on Saturday was much
better than on Friday. In particular, starting about 0300
UTC on Sunday (Saturday night in the US) operators
started to make many more QSOs than they did on the
first night. The peak of the opening appears to be the 30
minutes starting at 0400 UTC when over 1,500 QSOs
were logged — a rate of almost one per second. The band
remained open through the rest of the night until the
QSO rate dropped to zero around 0700 UTC or 2AM
local time on the East Coast.
2014 versus 2013 United States to Europe:
https://vimeo.com/125578200
Interpretation gets to be more complex. What I see is that
during 2014 on Day 1 the path was better early along the
East Coast but then as the day progressed, QSO rates
were generally below those seen during 2013. For Day 2
the two years were pretty comparable early but as the day
progressed, 2014 showed generally higher QSO rates
than 2013.
Evening Activity in the U.S.
One thing I do in preparing to write each year's article is
to read the soapbox comments everyone wrote. Every
one of them! In doing so I came across many references
to the quality of the evening opening in the US on
Saturday night versus Friday night. Some typical
comments were:
Second, I wondered if a picture of the differences in the
opening between the two nights could be developed? To
do this I needed to map individual QSOs. A different tool
was needed than what I used to build the propagation
movies. For this work I turned to ViewProp by ZL2HAM
(https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/viewprop/info).
This program can input a Cabrillo file and be configured
to draw a line on a map representing each QSO. One map
was made for QSOs made during the 0400 to 0415 UTC
periods on Friday and Saturday night and these are
presented below.
"The E-skip finally got hot around 0230 [Saturday
night], but most of the casual ops had long since QRTed"
- Bill, K4XS.
"Best part of the contest was on Saturday night, when 10
turned into 6 meters for awhile" Jamie, NS3T.
"Big Es late Saturday night but hardly anyone around to
work it!" W9XG (operator Bob, K2DRH.)
Seeing all these comments I thought I should take a look
at what happened. First, I wondered if their observations
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Could they have found a contest-winning three more
QSOs in those periods? It seems like they could have.
Did this Saturday night opening also have an impact on
the NX5M versus N2NT race for US Multioperator, High
Power honors? Maybe. The race was not as close as
NØNI versus WW4LL. The final margin of victory for
NX5M was on the order of 50 CW or 100 phone QSOs.
Over a 48 hour contest many things can happen that
swing scores one way or another. However, during
Saturday evening from 0200 to 0700 UTC, NX5M
worked 165 more QSOs than N2NT. If N2NT had
simply matched NX5M during these hours, N2NT would
have won.
The question of why NX5M did better during this period
can't be totally answered with the data at hand. One
interesting conjecture can be seen on the QSO map.
NX5M in Texas appeared to be ideally situated for the
opening. From their location propagation was available
into the high population areas up and down the East
Coast and across the upper Midwest. On the other hand,
it looks like N2NT was on the northeast corner of the
opening and, from their location propagation was open
into less populated areas. Perhaps N2NT just could not
match NX5M's QSO total?
Differences in the two nights show up quite clearly. On
Friday night the opening was mostly just up and down
the East Coast with few QSOs west of the Appalachian
Mountains. On Saturday night the opening reached all
the way west to the Mississippi River and beyond,
notably into Texas where several of the big players were
racking up QSOs.
Also note the western edge of the opening just barely
made it to Iowa where NØNI was in a close race in the
US Multioperator, Low Power category with WW4LL in
Georgia. Looking at NØNI's log though shows they made
no QSOs between 0143 and 0553 UTC. At 0553 they
caught the end of the opening and made 10 QSOs in
about 30 minutes. Did they truly miss the peak of the
opening or were they monitoring the band and the
opening missed them? Only they know for sure but
luckily they made those 10 QSOs. Without them they
would have ended up in second place. What about
WW4LL? They were off the air for an hour around 0000
UTC Sunday and then made their last QSO for the night
at 0340 UTC, when the band still appeared to be open.
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The map of QSOs logged one hour later, during the
0500-0515 UTC period does seem to show that the
opening was closing down for those stations in the
northeast while it was still going strong in Texas. In
many things in life sometimes "Being in the right place at
the right time" can be the difference between winning
and losing. This may have been one of those times. If
Saturday night had played out a different way, N2NT
could have taken home the victory.
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For WB9Z versus NR5M race in the US Single-Operator,
High Power Phone category, this Saturday opening
seemed to make the difference. NR5M caught it and
made 198 QSOs in the 0300 to 0600 hours. WB9Z made
no QSOs during this period though being in the area
where the opening was active. Since WB9Z came up just
10 QSOs short, the way in which each station took
advantage of this opening made the difference.
To complete the study of this Saturday evening opening a
similar picture was created using CW Skimmer spots
from the Reverse Beacon Network as shown below.
A similar situation was observed in the study I did for the
2013 contest article on how the band opens in the
morning from the US to Europe. In that case many US
stations were making QSOs with Europe 30 minutes
before the skimmer network showed the band was open.
Even with modern technology, the best way to tell if a
band is open is to turn on the radio and listen to the band.
Finally, what about soapbox comments of running out of
people to work? Did these have any basis in fact or were
they just a case of grizzly old contesters finding
something to complain about? Torturing the Skimmer
data some more may give a hint.
Using the Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) data contained in
the RBN spots as a measure of signal strength we can see
if the band really was open and no one was home. (I
know SNR should not be used this way because SNR can
and will also go up if noise goes down and this trend
could just as easily and plausibly been going on at the
same time. But what the heck, let's give it a try anyway.)
Sorting through the RBN spots in the period after 0500
UTC there are several examples of where the same
transmitting station was heard by the same Skimmer
multiple times. These were used to draw a timeline of the
SNR.
Though appearing as a jumble of lines, it does look like
the band was still open after 0600 UTC and even towards
0700 UTC. (0700 was 2AM Eastern Time) If all the lines
had a strong "down and to the right" trend then you
might say the band was dying out. But, in this case it
looks like the operators were the ones dying out, or
perhaps everyone still awake had worked everyone.
Those grizzled old contest veterans may have been right!
These two maps tell pretty much the same story as the
one created from the QSOs. One difference though is that
they are more "sparse.” To some extent this is because
the number of Skimmers is much smaller than the number
of stations on the air. They also catch only CW activity
and not phone. Also keep in mind that Skimmers often
use low gain, omnidirectional antennas. When band
conditions are marginal the skimmer network is not the
best source of information on the quality of the opening.
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An updated view of contest logging
programs
Perusing the Soapbox comments I also noticed that many
operators were using the recently-released N1MM Plus
for the first time. With access to Cabrillo log files it is
fairly easy to summarize contest logging programs used
by the entrants. One of the standard Cabrillo tags is
"CREATED-BY:" which is followed by the name of the
logging program. Another Python program was created
to look through all the logs and tally the programs used.
programs and in 2014 this increased to 86.6%. However,
in both years there are still a total of 85 different logging
programs and methods used. The N1MM family is grew
from 45.4% in 2013 to 47.0% in 2014. Both Win-Test
and WriteLog showed declines of 1.0% between 2013
and 2014. Among the rest of the top ten programs, the
year to year changes are 0.5% or less.
For the 2014 ARRL 10 Meter Contest logging program
usage looked like this:
There are a few programs on this list I am not familiar
with. The ARRL 10 Meter Contest is a worldwide event
and there are several countries which have a logging
program popular just in their country or region. For
example CTESTWIN is popular in Japan and UcxLog is
popular in central and eastern Europe. There are also a
noticeable number of operators who still log by hand and
then use the WA7BNM Cabrillo Web Form to create
their log file. Overall, N1MM Logger is used by far more
contesters than any other logging program. It is used four
times more than the second most popular logging
program by N3FJP. We can also see that more than half
of the N1MM Logger users had already migrated to
N1MM Plus by the time the ARRL 10 Meter contest was
held in mid-December, less than three months after the
program ended beta testing on September 22!
Comparing the logging programs used in 2014 to those
used in 2013 we can see usage trends occurring. Realize
there really are not any major changes — other than the
migration to N1MM Plus. Once we learn a logging
program, most of us really don't switch very often.
There is a small uptick in the percentage of us using the
top ten programs. In 2013 85.4% used one of the top ten
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Another perspective about contest logging program that I
have heard discussed is "What do serious contesters
use?" It seems plausible to use a metric of "Average size
of log submitted" to provide this insight. Serious
contesters usually make more QSOs than the casual ones.
Using this metric the view looks as follows:
Win-Test users have the largest average log size. CT and
WriteLog log sizes are next, but on average 200 QSOs
smaller than a Win-Test log. Win-Test logs were, on
average, more than twice as large as the average log
submitted in 2014. It is interesting that CT does not have
many users any more but those who do continue to use it
are pretty serious. Also interesting is that N3FJP, which
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is the second most popular program, has relatively small
logs at around 70% of the average log. Thus, it seems to
appeal to more casual contesters. The N1MM family
users had logs just slightly bigger than average.
Amazingly, the average log size for N1MM Logger and
N1MM Plus users was exactly the same!
New world records
2014 may be the last for eight years in which any new
world records are achieved during this sunspot cycle. If
so, 2014 certainly will have left its mark in the record
book. Let's take a look at what happened. (This table of
all world records as well as a similar table of all time
W/VE/XE records can be found online at
www.arrl.org/contest-records)
from the north side of the island with the radio station
setup inside the back seat of my van. My operating QTH
was a public place so many people would pull off the
road and take a look at the antenna — the same 3
element design by K5GO that was used for the FT5ZM
gang, It's amazing what a small antenna can do when
over salt water." Kevin managed over 3,500 QSOs with
this Field Day type setup and broke the prior record by
almost 30%. Yes, that is amazing!
V31MA — Single-Operator, QRP, Phone Only,
displaced KP4KE's record from 2002. As Marc, V31MA,
related in his post contest comments, "...I started the
contest just for fun with the goal to make 100 QRP Qs.
Conditions where outstanding and after the first hour, I
reached the 100 QSO mark. I realized I had a good
chance for much more Qs so decided to try for 500..." He
ended up with 1,565 QSOs and a new record. Not bad for
just a "fun" operation.
FY5KE — Multioperator, High Power, displaced D4C's
record from 2011. As Larry, F6FVY, said for the team of
he, F1HAR, and F5HRY, "15 years have passed since
1999 when we entered the ARRL 10 Meter Contest in
M/S as CT8W (#1 EU - #2 world) for the last time.” It
seems like they remembered everything they learned
back in 1999 and managed to set a new record with fewer
QSOs and fewer multipliers than the old record. You
might wonder how did they do that? They made 66% of
their QSOs on CW whereas D4C made only 47% of their
QSOs on CW. FY5KE had 600 more CW QSOs than
D4C and CW QSOs are worth 4 points while phone
QSOs are worth 2 points. That was the difference.
First, congratulations to the nine stations establishing
world records in the new Single-Operator Unlimited
categories. Seven are stations in North or South America
with the remaining two from Europe. Note that in all
cases the Unlimited category record scores are lower than
those in the classic Single-Operator categories, but they
are still great scores and may live until the next sunspot
peak. In the long run, expect Single-Operator Unlimited
category records to eventually exceed the classic scores.
There were three new world records in the established
categories. That's pretty good for a year in which
conditions were not anywhere near as good as in the
years 2000-2002 at the peak of the prior sunspot cycle.
Yet two of the three new records displaced ones from
that period. Each has a great story within the story, let's
hear from the operators.
ZF2DX — Single-Operator, Low Power, Mixed Mode,
displaced WP2Z's record from 2000. As Kevin, ZF2DX,
related in his post contest soapbox, "I operated portable
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Congratulations to all the new record holders. You have
set the bar at which others must aim.
Total Contest Activity - How many stations?
How many QSOs?
Inquisitive types might wonder, "How many stations
worldwide actually got on the air during the contest?" Or,
"I wonder how may QSOs were really made during the
contest?” While exact answers are impossible to obtain,
some educated guesses are possible by looking at the
logs.
What we do know is that 5,483 stations submitted logs
for scoring and these contained 2,016,340 QSOs. (For
this article I am going count each contact in each log.
You could argue that a contact in a log is just one side of
a QSO between two stations and thus I was doublecounting. Each contact counts as a separate QSO for each
station, though, so I used this method.) The question then
becomes how many other stations were on the air but did
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not submit logs and how many QSOs did they make?
Again, we can look at the submitted logs.
Incredibly, looking across all logs submitted, a total of
48,909 different call signs can be found. Does this mean
this many stations were actually on the air? No way. For
example, 24,874 call signs were logged in just a single
QSO. While some are from a real station, the vast
majority of them are busted call signs. So while the QSO
was likely real and should count towards total QSOs, the
call sign is not valid.
The number of QSOs reported with call signs which did
not submit a log is shown below. Note that the Y-axis
scale is logarithmic in order to display the huge number
of call signs for which there are very few instances. In
fact of the 48,909 call signs, 33,011 or 67% are found in
5 or fewer logs.
were made with stations who also submitted logs. The
remaining 550,000 are with stations who did not submit
logs. So if we had those missing logs we would first add
another 550,000 QSOs to the total. (Remember I am
counting both sides of a contact as a QSO.)
What about contacts between two stations who didn't
submit logs? Those certainly occurred, but how many?
By making the assumption that 85% of their QSOs were
with stations who turned in logs, there may be another
100,000 QSOs between two stations, neither of whom
submitted logs for score. This gets us to a final estimate
of 2.67 million QSOs being made during the contest.
Spread evenly across the 48-hour operating period this
means 15 QSOs were being made every second or over
55,000 QSOs per hour. That's a lot of activity.
Predictions for 2015
The 43rd annual ARRL 10 Meter Contest will be held on
December 12th and 13th, 2015. What might we expect
this year? If there is one truth about how an ARRL 10
Meter contest will behave, it has to do with propagation:
Good propagation brings out more operators. Good
propagation means each participant can make more
QSOs more easily. These two factors build on
themselves in almost an exponential way driving up the
overall fun quotient. And since propagation is based on
what the Sun is doing, let's start by looking at solar
forecasts.
So how many stations were actually on the air? A closer
estimate could be calculated by applying sophisticated
analysis to the call sign list, attempting to match likely
busted calls to a known good call, but I don't have those
tools. As a simple estimate, I set a threshold of 15 QSOs.
If a call sign was found in more than 15 QSOs it was
judged a good call sign. Sure, some call signs in more
than 15 QSOs were busted and some call signs with less
than 15 QSOs were good. But this value seemed to be a
reasonable compromise and I arrived at an estimate of
11,739 stations on the air — 5,483 for which we have
logs and 6,256 for which we don't. If you feel like the
good/no-good line should be drawn at 25 QSOs then the
total estimate drops to 9,931 calls. It feels accurate that at
least twice as many stations were on the air as those who
turned in logs for scoring.
Moving on now to how many QSOs were made in total,
the logs submitted contain a bit more than 2 million
QSOs. Of these 2 million QSOs, 73%, or 1.47 million,
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Looking back at 2013, Solar Cycle 24 held to form by
rising to a nice second peak. In fact this peak coincided
wonderfully with the 2013 edition of the ARRL 10 Meter
Contest. Amateurs worldwide jumped at the
opportunities it gave them. Following this peak, sunspot
numbers began an inevitable decline through 2014 as we
entered Cycle 24's late phases. However, the Sun once
again had an uptick in activity just in time for the late
2014 contest season. The CQWW contests in October
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and November had great conditions. Did it hold out for
the ARRL 10 Meter contest? Yes, it did! As Bob, K2XL,
said in his post-contest comments: "The departing
sunspot cycle has left us a going away present."
What about 2015? Sunspot cycles are notoriously hard to
forecast. If you remember, initial forecasts for Cycle 24
suggested it could be the cycle of all cycles. Alas, it has
proven to be the weakest since the ARRL 10 Meter
Contest began in 1973. Not since Cycle 20 which peaked
in the late-1960s have we seen such a weak cycle The
April 2015 forecast by NOAA's Space Weather
Prediction Center for December 2015 is for a smoothed
sunspot number in the 44 to 64 range with corresponding
10.7 cm radio flux levels in the 99 to 117 range. Their
single predicted numbers are for a smoothed sunspot
number of 54 and flux of 108. These levels, though down
from the last two years, should still allow for reasonable
10 meter propagation. History shows that as long as the
sunspot number is above 50 and flux levels are above
100 there will be plenty of good openings on 10 meters.
Compared to recent years, 2015 conditions should be
fairly similar to 2012. If you operated in 2012, pull out
your log to see how things were. Or read the 2012
contest results! Most importantly, these conditions will
almost assuredly be better than any year for the rest of
the decade! As Alan, KF3B, observed: "It's unlikely that
we will have such good conditions next year but the
contest will be great fun in any case." Exactly! It will
still be a fun weekend.
Continuing the predictions, "What score might it take to
get into a Top Ten box?" This is also positively
correlated with solar flux, meaning the higher the flux,
the higher the score you need. I have studied this for the
US and DX High Power categories, with the results
presented in the following two charts. (I apologize to
those in VE and XE and those operating in Low Power
and QRP categories for not preparing similar charts for
you. Putting these together is very data and time
intensive and I have just not had enough of the latter to
complete them. All the data you need is in the ARRL
searchable database. Additionally, there is just not
enough historical data for the new Unlimited categories
yet.)
Though the path Cycle 24 will take is hard to forecast, it
is certainly going to be going down from here through
the end of the decade. By 2019 you will certainly be
looking back at 2015 and wishing conditions were at
least that good, so plan on operating now.
With this level of solar activity, what activity and scoring
should you expect during the contest? From a
participation standpoint, overall there has been a growth
in contesting worldwide and increasing numbers of hams
will enter contests. Additionally, history clearly shows
that in the ARRL 10 Meter Contest, better propagation
drives more hams to get on the air. With the worldwide
spread of the Internet, computer logging programs,
standardized log file formats, and electronic log
submission, it is easier than ever to submit a log, thus,
higher percentages of operators submit logs. This all
came together last year with the incredible 5,488 logs and
2 million QSOs. With a flux level in the 110 range in
2015, I predict 4,000 logs will be received.
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Based on these two charts and applying some "windage"
to the more recent results my predictions for the
minimum score it will take to get into a High Power Top
Ten box in the US and DX during the 2015 contest are in
the following chart:
If you are so inclined, take these goals, choose your
category, and figure out what sort of QSO and multiplier
total it will take to reach your goal. Write these down in
big bold letters on a piece of paper and post it in clear
sight at your operating position. Then sit down, get on
the air, and don't get up until you have exceeded your
goals! Even if you are not so inclined, make sure to sit
down and get on the air – the 2015 contest on Dec 12th
and 13th looks like once again it will be a fun one. And,
given where we are in the solar cycle, in future years you
will look back on 2015 and say to yourself "Boy those
were the good old days!”
For you competitive types, notice the creation of the new
Unlimited categories has made it easier to work yourself
into a Top Ten box. Because entrants are now spread
across more categories it reduces the competition in any
single category. The impact on you is that it reduces the
competition. You are a "Bigger Fish in a Smaller Pond!"
You can see this to some extent in how my predictions
for 2014 played out. In every single case it actually took
fewer points to get into the Top Ten than I predicted even
though conditions were better than when I made my
predictions in April of 2014.
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Division Winners
Single Operator, Mixed Mode
Atlantic
NK8Q
Central
N9NE
Dakota
WFØT
Great Lakes
KB8U
Hudson
WB2AMU
New England
K1WHS
Northwestern
W7YAQ
Pacific
WD6DX
Roanoke
KK4UNZ
Rocky Mountain
NS7K
Southeastern
K3TW
Southwestern
WA6FGV
West Gulf
N1CC
Canada
VE6UM
182,688
278,216
27,132
211,572
155,958
316,590
310,312
64,980
61,248
56,606
187,000
327,502
325,704
104,920
QRP
QRP
QRP
QRP
QRP
QRP
QRP
QRP
QRP
QRP
QRP
QRP
QRP
QRP
Atlantic
Central
Dakota
Delta
Great Lakes
Hudson
Mexico
Midwest
New England
Northwestern
Pacific
Roanoke
Rocky Mountain
Southeastern
Southwestern
West Gulf
Canada
KB3WD
N9WKW
ACØW
W4DAN
N8VV
KU2M
XE1HG
KTØK
W3EP
W7WHO
KH7M (KH6ZM, op)
N4VA
KFØUR
K2PS
K6AM
WA8ZBT
VE4GV
1,436,850
142,380
521,968
126,280
563,312
1,446,870
594,638
861,732
1,090,122
434,720
1,184,056
421,400
574,434
1,178,748
1,200,914
455,592
1,014,948
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
Atlantic
Central
Dakota
Delta
Great Lakes
Hudson
Mexico
Midwest
New England
Northwestern
Pacific
Roanoke
Rocky Mountain
Southeastern
Southwestern
West Gulf
Canada
N3OC
W9OP
KØTT
K5UZ
K8BZ
W2XL
XE1H
KØDEQ
K1LZ
W7GKF
W6YX (N7MH, op)
N8II
AA5B
WX4G
N6AN (@W6UE)
N5XZ
VE3AT
1,621,536
517,716
1,473,978
913,070
823,264
1,138,464
63,826
1,038,116
2,674,992
743,728
1,713,150
2,077,660
568,400
1,323,450
692,920
298,400
2,335,110
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
1,440
23,140
26,586
4,160
23,760
12,168
4,582
2,688
20,160
38,480
23,528
52,140
30,456
69,488
69,264
33,892
QRP
QRP
QRP
QRP
QRP
QRP
QRP
QRP
QRP
QRP
QRP
QRP
QRP
QRP
QRP
QRP
Single Operator, Phone Only
Atlantic
N3NTF
Central
N9FRY
Dakota
WBØIWG
Delta
KE5SNJ
Great Lakes
KU4A
Hudson
N2EAB
Midwest
WØJMW
New England
NZ1MT
Northwestern
NT7S
Pacific
K2GMY
Roanoke
NO4FX
Rocky Mountain
KKØQ
Southeastern
KS4GW
Southwestern
W6QU (W8QZA, op)
West Gulf
KB5KYJ
Canada
VA3VF
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Atlantic
Central
Dakota
Delta
Great Lakes
Hudson
Mexico
Midwest
New England
Northwestern
Pacific
Roanoke
Rocky Mountain
Southeastern
Southwestern
West Gulf
Canada
N3VOP
KB9TQO
KØVH
N5FG
KB8UUZ
N2MUN
XE2O
ACØRA
W1TJL
KB7HDX
KH6LC (NH6V, op)
K4PZC
KA7PNH
K4FCG (K1KNQ, op)
KF6ILA
WR5O
VO2NS
88,060
159,000
39,936
68,796
104,796
154,936
227,868
278,640
262,432
129,584
703,296
100,566
204,878
149,176
102,000
261,232
158,400
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
Atlantic
Central
Dakota
Delta
Great Lakes
Hudson
Mexico
Midwest
New England
Northwestern
Pacific
Roanoke
Rocky Mountain
Southeastern
Southwestern
West Gulf
Canada
K4ZA
WB9Z
KØRJW
W4EEH
KE8FT
N2YBB
XE1B
KDØLRG
NC1I (K9PW, op)
K7YK
K6JAT
K4CGY
KØJU
K4NV
W7WW
NR5M
VO1KVT
707,476
930,336
34,048
303,876
199,348
151,044
816,216
286,212
824,892
442,400
137,600
228,052
493,612
561,246
492,708
933,966
349,920
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
Single Operator, CW Only
Atlantic
Central
Dakota
Delta
Great Lakes
Hudson
Midwest
New England
Northwestern
Pacific
Roanoke
Rocky Mountain
Southeastern
Southwestern
West Gulf
Canada
WA3IIA
K9AY
KEØG
NU4B
K4FT
NQ2W
KSØMO
AA1CA
W7GB
W6JTI
N3CZ
KØAV
AD4Z
KM6Z
N5OE
VY2OX
145,248
137,592
51,040
74,400
126,852
61,824
156,672
203,200
65,800
268,256
97,856
14,268
155,520
110,864
120,048
207,792
QRP
QRP
QRP
QRP
QRP
QRP
QRP
QRP
QRP
QRP
QRP
QRP
QRP
QRP
QRP
QRP
Atlantic
Central
Dakota
Delta
Great Lakes
Hudson
Mexico
Midwest
New England
Northwestern
Pacific
Roanoke
Rocky Mountain
Southeastern
Southwestern
K2LNS
K9QVB
KNØV
N2WN
NA8V
W2EG
XE2X
WNØL
WA1Z
K7WA
KJ6MBW
K4ORD
NØGOS
N4WW (N4KM, op)
WA6DBC
379,940
479,400
343,168
217,124
386,048
406,692
82,176
59,616
886,008
253,828
226,480
324,768
117,040
874,608
276,000
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
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West Gulf
Canada
AE5GT
VE1RGB
Atlantic
Central
Dakota
Delta
Great Lakes
Hudson
Mexico
Midwest
New England
Northwestern
Pacific
Roanoke
Rocky Mountain
Southeastern
Southwestern
West Gulf
Canada
KD4D
K9MA
NEØU
AD4EB
W8TA
K2UF
XE1MM
NSØR
W1QK
WJ9B
N6TV
N4AF
N2IC
K1TO
K8IA
WXØB (NM5M, op)
VE3OI
Single Operator Unlimited, Mixed Mode
Atlantic
N3HCN
Central
WE9R
Delta
K2FF
New England
N1RLR
Pacific
NF1R
Roanoke
K4YND
Southwestern
N6MA
Canada
VA3PAW
589,280
368,316
LP
LP
1,322,176
660,584
573,040
698,700
593,712
279,984
688,012
254,232
802,244
1,049,420
1,009,748
1,060,752
1,627,008
1,621,928
1,195,200
1,153,040
937,848
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
21,840
10,584
130,784
15,006
18,748
17,748
26,404
18,952
QRP
QRP
QRP
QRP
QRP
QRP
QRP
QRP
Atlantic
Central
Dakota
Delta
Great Lakes
Hudson
Mexico
Midwest
New England
Northwestern
Pacific
Roanoke
Rocky Mountain
Southeastern
Southwestern
West Gulf
Canada
WW2P
K9PG
AAØAW
K3IE
K8BL
K2DFC
XE2JS
NXØI
AB1J
KN7K
K6MM
AA4R
AD1C
K9OM
W6SAN
N5DO
VE9OA
360,396
281,454
311,982
630,336
673,932
557,388
316,356
309,380
315,138
253,644
326,928
282,632
158,808
1,427,090
128,400
1,159,180
217,710
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
Atlantic
Central
Dakota
Delta
Great Lakes
Hudson
Midwest
New England
Northwestern
Pacific
Roanoke
Rocky Mountain
Southeastern
Southwestern
West Gulf
Canada
K3WW
WØAIH (NE9U, op)
KØCN
N8OO
W8MJ
N1EU
KØBJ
K1RO
K7RL
K6SRZ
W4ML (W4MYA, op)
W7CT
N4PN
K7JQ
N5ZC
VE7UF (VE7JH, op)
2,106,490
2,001,084
461,202
2,577,568
1,905,856
161,188
837,144
1,874,708
2,281,216
1,430,946
1,842,640
359,608
1,977,054
655,506
577,584
1,881,264
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
41,064
6,364
8,544
QRP
QRP
QRP
Single Operator Unlimited, Phone Only
Central
W9RPM
Northwestern
K7ATN
Pacific
WB6CZG
2014 ARRL 10 Meter Contest
Atlantic
Dakota
Delta
Great Lakes
Hudson
Mexico
Midwest
New England
Northwestern
Pacific
Roanoke
Rocky Mountain
Southeastern
Southwestern
West Gulf
Canada
KE2OI
W9XG (K2DRH
@K2DRH)
WØRK
KC5WA
KD4SN
N2FF
XE3N
NRØQ
W1AIR
KL1JP
N6ORB
KM4RK
KC6R
KK4LGC
WØPAN
WBØTEV
VE2PIJ
84,836
LP
333,760
LP
12,000
28,324
82,536
43,344
140,676
27,888
58,200
50,752
32,916
14,484
82,838
53,728
28,656
132,912
11,790
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
Atlantic
Central
Dakota
Delta
Great Lakes
Hudson
Mexico
Midwest
New England
Northwestern
Pacific
Roanoke
Rocky Mountain
Southeastern
Southwestern
West Gulf
Canada
W3LL
W9JA
NØODK
W3TZ
N8BI
KM2O
XE2K
KDØFW
KA1ZD
KI7M
K3EST
N1GC
WB7S
K4XS
K7LY
WW5TT
VA3PC
599,274
55,512
88,944
72,900
303,048
140,836
191,196
329,472
185,426
323,806
946,792
170,016
140,600
1,062,360
250,992
459,612
75,438
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
Single Operator Unlimited, CW Only
Atlantic
KW3F
Dakota
NØUR
Delta
N4UW
Hudson
N2KW
Midwest
K4EQ
Pacific
KU7Y
Rocky Mountain
WC7S
Southwestern
N7IR
West Gulf
K5KJ
Canada
VE3KI
89,688
156,032
76,464
147,744
38,976
54,180
98,000
225,548
211,008
299,592
QRP
QRP
QRP
QRP
QRP
QRP
QRP
QRP
QRP
QRP
Atlantic
Central
Dakota
Delta
Great Lakes
Hudson
Mexico
New England
Northwestern
Pacific
Roanoke
Rocky Mountain
Southeastern
Southwestern
West Gulf
Canada
W3KB
W9XT
WØERP
NA5NN (W5UE, op)
W8BI (KD8SAV, op)
WB2AA
XE2FGC
KE1J
WL7E
KZ2V
AA4FU
KØRI
WA1FCN
K6WSC
K5GM
VE6WQ
419,052
262,524
279,896
383,544
212,676
99,600
42,228
238,712
208,972
166,944
244,160
250,920
311,040
551,600
76,752
621,760
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
LP
Atlantic
Central
Dakota
N3RS
K9CT
KØIR
1,320,120
1,349,800
204,624
HP
HP
HP
Central
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Delta
Great Lakes
Hudson
Midwest
New England
Northwestern
Pacific
Roanoke
Rocky Mountain
Southeastern
Southwestern
West Gulf
Canada
AA5AU
K1LT
WU2X (K5GO, op)
WØGXA
N9NC
N7NM
KH7Y
NR4M
N5FO
N4BP
K6LL
W5GN
VE1OP
483,924
863,532
1,193,264
406,504
1,495,988
564,876
1,017,072
1,007,456
1,254,192
1,267,692
1,331,840
853,072
897,544
Multioperator, HP
Atlantic
Central
Dakota
Delta
Great Lakes
Hudson
Mexico
Midwest
New England
Northwestern
Pacific
Roanoke
Rocky Mountain
Southeastern
Southwestern
West Gulf
Canada
K3OQ
AA9A
KDØS
K5UA
W8PR
N2NT
XE2B
W1NA
K6ND
WC7Q
KH6RR
K4FJ
KØDU
AA4HP
W8TK
NX5M
VE5ZX
501,600
2,297,552
1,895,296
621,456
845,918
3,146,688
1,189,656
1,193,130
2,084,608
588,990
1,319,200
1,883,752
1,227,150
1,115,072
1,740,354
3,216,840
977,244
Multioperator, LP
Atlantic
Central
Dakota
Dakota
Delta
Great Lakes
Mexico
Midwest
New England
Northwestern
Pacific
Roanoke
Rocky Mountain
Southeastern
Southwestern
West Gulf
Canada
KO3T
N9CDX
NØHJZ
NDØC
WN2E
KA3MTU
XE1CRG
NØNI
N1WW
W7TVC
N6GEO
WD4LBR
WØDLE
WW4LL
N7UJJ
KS5Z
VE9ML
683,936
244,216
506,160
3,696
88,984
13,250
53,040
1,498,754
574,896
981,046
332,904
95,408
1,066,394
1,495,844
90,528
280,980
885,920
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HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
HP
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Regional Leaders
SOQRP/LP/HP = Single-Op All-Band; SOULP/HP = Single-Op Unlimited; MSL/MSH = Multioperator, Single Transmitter
Northeast Region
Southeast Region
New England, Hudson and
Atlantic Divisions; Maritime and
Quebec Sections
Call
Score
Cat
K1WHS
W1WBB
NK8Q
WB2AMU
NW3H
KU2M
316,590
246,160
182,688
155,958
105,728
1,446,870
SOQRP, Mix
SOQRP, Mix
SOQRP, Mix
SOQRP, Mix
SOQRP, Mix
SOLP, Mix
KB3WD
1,436,850
SOLP, Mix
W3EP
WX1S
VE1RSM
1,090,122
650,468
507,300
SOLP, Mix
SOLP, Mix
SOLP, Mix
K1LZ
2,674,992
SOHP, Mix
N3OC
1,621,536
SOHP, Mix
W1WMU
1,558,208
SOHP, Mix
NN1N
1,431,202
SOHP, Mix
VA2EW
1,360,040
SOHP, Mix
N2EAB
NZ1MT
KB1PXO
N3NTF
NZ1I
12,168
SOQRP, Ph
2,688
2,408
1,440
1,110
SOQRP, Ph
SOQRP, Ph
SOQRP, Ph
SOQRP, Ph
W1TJL
262,432
SOLP, Ph
VO2NS
N2MUN
N1WRK
N2HMM
NC1I (K9PW,
op)
158,400
154,936
147,360
135,648
SOLP, Ph
SOLP, Ph
SOLP, Ph
SOLP, Ph
824,892
SOHP, Ph
K4ZA
707,476
SOHP, Ph
K2SSS
N1IXF
W1SJ
VY2OX
AA1CA
WA3IIA
K2SM
NQ2W
639,880
537,096
471,554
207,792
203,200
145,248
99,792
61,824
SOHP, Ph
SOHP, Ph
SOHP, Ph
SOQRP, CW
SOQRP, CW
SOQRP, CW
SOQRP, CW
SOQRP, CW
WA1Z
886,008
SOLP, CW
W2EG
K2LNS
VE1RGB
W3BGN
406,692
379,940
368,316
355,264
SOLP, CW
SOLP, CW
SOLP, CW
SOLP, CW
KD4D
1,322,176
SOHP, CW
W1QK
AA3B
802,244
651,948
SOHP, CW
SOHP, CW
K1VMT
631,620
SOHP, CW
K3UL
N3HCN
N1RLR
W3IBT
(W3WH, op)
K2DFC
WW2P
AB1J
N1API
WA2JQK
557,568
21,840
15,006
SOHP, CW
SOUQRP, Mix
SOUQRP, Mix
8,064
SOUQRP, Mix
557,388
360,396
315,138
288,028
271,436
SOULP, Mix
SOULP, Mix
SOULP, Mix
SOULP, Mix
SOULP, Mix
K3WW
2,106,490
SOUHP, Mix
K1RO
1,874,708
SOUHP, Mix
2014 ARRL 10 Meter Contest
Delta, Roanoke and
Southeastern Divisions
Call
Score
Cat
Central Region
Midwest Region
West Coast Region
Central and Great Lakes
Divisions; Ontario Section
Dakota, Midwest, Rocky
Mountain and West Gulf
Divisions; Manitoba and
Saskatchewan Sections
Pacific, Northwestern and
Southwestern Divisions; Alberta,
British Columbia and NWT
Sections
Call
K3TW
NT4TS
KK4UNZ
W5NZ
WN4AFP
K2PS
WO4O
187,000
65,096
61,248
48,640
4,864
1,178,748
1,081,632
SOQRP, Mix
SOQRP, Mix
SOQRP, Mix
SOQRP, Mix
SOQRP, Mix
SOLP, Mix
SOLP, Mix
N9NE
KB8U
N9JR
KK4JSJ
N9TF
N8VV
VE3WG
N4VA
KC4TEO
K4NC
N8II
421,400
302,290
205,084
2,077,660
SOLP, Mix
SOLP, Mix
SOLP, Mix
SOHP, Mix
K8BTU
VE3FH
WD8S
VE3AT
WX4G
NR3X
(N4YDU, op)
K4WI
1,323,450
1,185,280
SOHP, Mix
SOHP, Mix
929,060
913,070
Score
Cat
Call
Score
Cat
SOQRP, Mix
SOQRP, Mix
SOQRP, Mix
SOQRP, Mix
SOQRP, Mix
SOLP, Mix
SOLP, Mix
N1CC
NS7K
WFØT
VE4GV
KTØK
KFØUR
ACØW
325,704
56,606
27,132
1,014,948
861,732
574,434
521,968
SOQRP, Mix
SOQRP, Mix
SOQRP, Mix
SOLP, Mix
SOLP, Mix
SOLP, Mix
SOLP, Mix
267,904
246,782
229,264
2,335,110
SOLP, Mix
SOLP, Mix
SOLP, Mix
SOHP, Mix
WA8ZBT
KØTT
KØDEQ
AA5B
455,592
1,473,978
1,038,116
568,400
SOLP, Mix
SOHP, Mix
SOHP, Mix
SOHP, Mix
VE3DZ
K8BZ
1,996,722
823,264
SOHP, Mix
SOHP, Mix
KBØEO
N5XZ
302,680
298,400
SOHP, Mix
SOHP, Mix
SOHP, Mix
W9OP
517,716
SOHP, Mix
KB5KYJ
69,264
SOQRP, Ph
SOHP, Mix
AJ9C
430,972
SOHP, Mix
KKØQ
52,140
SOQRP, Ph
30,456
SOQRP, Ph
VA3VF
33,892
SOQRP, Ph
KA5PVB
34,932
SOQRP, Ph
NO4FX
WM4P
N1DAY
W4WHL
K4FCG
(K1KNQ, op)
K4PZC
WA8QYJ
N8AID
N4DMX
K4NV
23,528
18,084
15,624
13,566
149,176
SOQRP, Ph
SOQRP, Ph
SOQRP, Ph
SOQRP, Ph
SOLP, Ph
KU4A
N9FRY
N9NBC
K9JK
VE3BKM
23,760
23,140
5,928
4,536
3,328
SOQRP, Ph
SOQRP, Ph
SOQRP, Ph
SOQRP, Ph
SOQRP, Ph
WBØIWG
KIØII
KJ5RM
ACØRA
WR5O
26,586
20,000
15,794
278,640
261,232
SOQRP, Ph
SOQRP, Ph
SOQRP, Ph
SOLP, Ph
SOLP, Ph
100,566
96,900
76,590
73,830
561,246
SOLP, Ph
SOLP, Ph
SOLP, Ph
SOLP, Ph
SOHP, Ph
VE3CBK
KB9TQO
KD9GY
KF9US
KB8UUZ
40
159,000
110,208
109,040
104,796
SOQRP, Ph
SOLP, Ph
SOLP, Ph
SOLP, Ph
SOLP, Ph
KA7PNH
WA5IYX
WB5R
NR5M
W5PR
204,878
191,940
139,570
933,966
885,360
NQ4I (W4DD,
op)
W4EEH
W4KW
NJ2F
AD4Z
N3CZ
N4AU
NU4B
KS4YX
N4WW (N4KM,
op)
K1DC
WB4TDH
WD4AHZ
W2TX
K1TO
510,624
SOHP, Ph
WØELT
SOLP, Ph
303,876
278,384
259,740
155,520
97,856
79,220
74,400
69,536
874,608
SOHP, Ph
SOHP, Ph
SOHP, Ph
SOQRP, CW
SOQRP, CW
SOQRP, CW
SOQRP, CW
SOQRP, CW
SOLP, CW
WB9Z
W9NY
KE8FT
ND4Y
WD8EOL
K9AY
K4FT
N8AP
K2YAZ
930,336
455,600
199,348
125,730
114,144
137,592
126,852
109,564
80,496
SOHP, Ph
SOHP, Ph
SOHP, Ph
SOHP, Ph
SOHP, Ph
SOQRP, CW
SOQRP, CW
SOQRP, CW
SOQRP, CW
K5TR
(WM5R, op)
KØJU
NT5V
KSØMO
N5OE
KEØG
KØPC
N8LA
AE5GT
W5MT
634,480
629,248
585,552
369,432
1,621,928
SOLP, CW
SOLP, CW
SOLP, CW
SOLP, CW
SOHP, CW
VE3KZ
K9QVB
NA8V
W9PN
VA3DF
61,992
479,400
386,048
344,760
342,616
SOQRP, CW
SOLP, CW
SOLP, CW
SOLP, CW
SOLP, CW
K4BAI
N4AF
N4TB
1,082,400
1,060,752
988,320
SOHP, CW
SOHP, CW
SOHP, CW
WB8JUI
VE3OI
K9MA
285,152
937,848
660,584
SOLP, CW
SOHP, CW
SOHP, CW
SOHP, CW
SOUQRP, Mix
SOUQRP, Mix
SOUQRP, Mix
W8TA
N8BJQ
W5MX
VA3PAW
593,712
558,072
493,520
18,952
SOHP, CW
SOHP, CW
SOHP, CW
SOUQRP, Mix
KNØV
N5KWN
K5LH
N2IC
WXØB
(NM5M, op)
W7UT
WD5K
NN7ZZ
(N5LZ, op)
N5DO
W5ZO
K7XC
AAØAW
10,584
673,932
281,454
274,794
254,688
206,382
SOUQRP, Mix
SOULP, Mix
SOULP, Mix
SOULP, Mix
SOULP, Mix
SOULP, Mix
SOUHP, Mix
K5UZ
KS4GW
N4XD
K2FF
K4YND
N4QX
939,456
130,784
17,748
868
K9OM
K3IE
AA4R
WF7T
N8FF
N8OO
1,427,090
630,336
282,632
231,568
214,038
2,577,568
SOULP, Mix
SOULP, Mix
SOULP, Mix
SOULP, Mix
SOULP, Mix
SOUHP, Mix
WE9R
K8BL
K9PG
K8GT
NØFCD
VE3XAT
N4PN
1,977,054
SOUHP, Mix
WØAIH
(NE9U, op)
Full Results – Version 1.3
278,216
211,572
109,610
52,962
45,792
563,312
360,960
90,132
2,001,084
Call
Score
Cat
WA6FGV
W7YAQ
KE6K
VE6UM
WD6DX
K6AM
KH7M
(KH6ZM, op)
KI6RRN
N6ZFO
KH6CJJ
W6YX
(N7MH, op)
VE7SZ
W7GKF
327,502
310,312
132,342
104,920
64,980
1,200,914
1,184,056
SOQRP, Mix
SOQRP, Mix
SOQRP, Mix
SOQRP, Mix
SOQRP, Mix
SOLP, Mix
SOLP, Mix
1,160,280
981,376
548,868
1,713,150
SOLP, Mix
SOLP, Mix
SOLP, Mix
SOHP, Mix
762,078
743,728
SOHP, Mix
SOHP, Mix
692,920
SOHP, Mix
510,720
SOHP, Mix
69,488
SOQRP, Ph
41,426
38,480
20,160
17,784
703,296
SOQRP, Ph
SOQRP, Ph
SOQRP, Ph
SOQRP, Ph
SOLP, Ph
SOLP, Ph
SOLP, Ph
SOLP, Ph
SOHP, Ph
SOHP, Ph
N6AN
(@W6UE)
KH6TU
(AD6E, op)
W6QU
(W8QZA, op)
KK7EL
K2GMY
NT7S
W1RO
KH6LC
(NH6V, op)
VE7ZR
VA6NJK
KB7HDX
K6GHA
W7WW
146,540
145,084
129,584
126,720
492,708
SOLP, Ph
SOLP, Ph
SOLP, Ph
SOLP, Ph
SOHP, Ph
788,190
SOHP, Ph
K7YK
442,400
SOHP, Ph
493,612
433,940
156,672
120,048
51,040
31,008
25,168
589,280
422,532
SOHP, Ph
SOHP, Ph
SOQRP, CW
SOQRP, CW
SOQRP, CW
SOQRP, CW
SOQRP, CW
SOLP, CW
SOLP, CW
AD6NR
WA7LT
K6JAT
W6JTI
K6OO
KM6Z
W7GB
W7LKG
VE7CA
257,294
171,080
137,600
268,256
228,664
110,864
65,800
62,832
306,360
SOHP, Ph
SOHP, Ph
SOHP, Ph
SOQRP, CW
SOQRP, CW
SOQRP, CW
SOQRP, CW
SOQRP, CW
SOLP, CW
343,168
268,800
235,876
1,627,008
1,153,040
SOLP, CW
SOLP, CW
SOLP, CW
SOHP, CW
SOHP, CW
WA6DBC
NC6V
K7WA
KJ6MBW
K8IA
276,000
261,516
253,828
226,480
1,195,200
SOLP, CW
SOLP, CW
SOLP, CW
SOLP, CW
SOHP, CW
799,596
780,952
732,564
SOHP, CW
SOHP, CW
SOHP, CW
WJ9B
W6PH
K6NA
1,049,420
1,026,740
1,022,400
SOHP, CW
SOHP, CW
SOHP, CW
1,159,180
542,592
392,064
311,982
SOULP, Mix
SOULP, Mix
SOULP, Mix
SOULP, Mix
N6TV
N6MA
NF1R
K6MM
1,009,748
26,404
18,748
326,928
SOHP, CW
SOUQRP, Mix
SOUQRP, Mix
SOULP, Mix
KØAD
VE4EA
KØBJ
N5ZC
K5NZ
KØCN
309,672
990,510
837,144
577,584
568,460
461,202
SOULP, Mix
SOUHP, Mix
SOUHP, Mix
SOUHP, Mix
SOUHP, Mix
SOUHP, Mix
253,644
205,896
196,308
151,698
2,281,216
1,881,264
SOULP, Mix
SOULP, Mix
SOULP, Mix
SOULP, Mix
SOUHP, Mix
SOUHP, Mix
WBØTEV
132,912
SOULP, PH
KN7K
W7ZRC
KE6QR
K6AAB
K7RL
VE7UF
(VE7JH, op)
K6SRZ
1,430,946
SOUHP, Mix
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VE9AA
1,721,970
SOUHP, Mix
KF3B
K3RA
KE2OI
W1AIR
1,569,000
1,384,944
84,836
58,200
SOUHP, Mix
SOUHP, Mix
SOULP, Ph
SOULP, Ph
W3VYK
49,490
SOULP, Ph
N2FF
KC2QNK
W3LL
43,344
23,904
599,274
SOULP, Ph
SOULP, Ph
SOUHP, Ph
K1RH
492,656
SOUHP, Ph
K3DNE
389,100
SOUHP, Ph
KA1ZD
KM2O
185,426
140,836
SOUHP, Ph
SOUHP, Ph
N2KW
147,744
SOUQRP, CW
KW3F
89,688
SOUQRP, CW
VA2SNL
VE2FU
6,256
569,400
SOUQRP, CW
SOULP, CW
W3KB
419,052
SOULP, CW
K3WI
KE1J
W2MMD
(WK2G, op)
N9NC
N3RS
K9RS
WU2X
(K5GO, op)
250,368
238,712
SOULP, CW
SOULP, CW
210,760
SOULP, CW
1,495,988
1,320,120
1,294,944
SOUHP, CW
SOUHP, CW
SOUHP, CW
1,193,264
SOUHP, CW
N2PP
1,102,360
SOUHP, CW
VE9ML
KO3T
N1WW
W3ZGD
W3HAC
N2NT
K6ND
AA1JD
W2YK
N2GC
885,920
683,936
574,896
308,016
232,624
3,146,688
2,084,608
2,029,900
1,014,950
907,068
ML
ML
ML
ML
ML
MH
MH
MH
MH
MH
2014 ARRL 10 Meter Contest
W4ML
(W4MYA, op)
N4UU
N3UA
KK4LGC
KC5WA
KD4ACG
1,842,640
SOUHP, Mix
W8MJ
SOUHP, Mix
KC6R
82,838
SOULP, PH
K9YC
1,689,000
1,684,296
53,728
28,324
26,600
SOUHP, Mix
SOUHP, Mix
SOULP, PH
SOULP, PH
SOULP, PH
929,152
739,368
716,800
41,064
333,760
SOUHP, Mix
SOUHP, Mix
SOUHP, Mix
SOUQRP, PH
SOULP, PH
KG5ANP
NRØQ
W5KAL
WW5TT
KDØFW
52,052
27,888
15,778
459,612
329,472
SOULP, PH
SOULP, PH
SOULP, PH
SOUHP, PH
SOUHP, PH
K7CF
WB6CZG
K7ATN
KL1JP
N6ORB
981,252
8,544
6,364
50,752
32,916
SOUHP, Mix
SOUQRP, PH
SOUQRP, PH
SOULP, PH
SOULP, PH
N5GP
KJ3Q
K4XS
N1GC
20,724
17,028
1,062,360
170,016
SOULP, PH
SOULP, PH
SOUHP, PH
SOUHP, PH
N2BJ
K9NW
VE3CX
W9RPM
W9XG
(K2DRH
@K2DRH)
N9TGR
KD4SN
KJ8O
KT8TD
235,470
82,536
34,196
28,800
SOULP, PH
SOULP, PH
SOULP, PH
SOULP, PH
N5MT
WB7S
K7RB
K5KJ
153,216
140,600
92,530
211,008
WØPAN
N7FG
W6DPD
K3EST
28,656
20,150
19,908
946,792
SOULP, PH
SOULP, PH
SOULP, PH
SOUHP, PH
N8PR
109,824
SOUHP, PH
N8BI
303,048
SOUHP, PH
NØUR
156,032
KI7M
323,806
SOUHP, PH
W4AQL
(EU1AAR, op)
WJ2D
103,040
SOUHP, PH
N8ZFM
267,960
SOUHP, PH
WC7S
98,000
K7LY
250,992
SOUHP, PH
74,580
SOUHP, PH
AC8G
259,532
SOUHP, PH
K4EQ
38,976
KL7KY
247,104
SOUHP, PH
76,464
SOUQRP, CW
AJ4A
194,340
SOUHP, PH
WØGJ
15,984
N6YG
85,536
SOUHP, PH
383,544
SOULP, CW
VA3PC
75,438
SOUHP, PH
WØERP
279,896
SOUHP, PH
SOUHP, PH
SOUHP, PH
SOUQRP,
CW
SOUQRP,
CW
SOUQRP,
CW
SOUQRP,
CW
SOUQRP,
CW
SOULP, CW
N7IR
225,548
SOUQRP, CW
311,040
303,408
252,296
SOULP, CW
SOULP, CW
SOULP, CW
299,592
262,524
212,676
SOUQRP, CW
SOULP, CW
SOULP, CW
KØRI
KIØJ
KØTI
250,920
182,756
119,232
SOULP, CW
SOULP, CW
SOULP, CW
KU7Y
N6RO
VE6WQ
54,180
49,932
621,760
SOUQRP, CW
SOUQRP, CW
SOULP, CW
AA4FU
N4BP
NR4M
244,160
1,267,692
1,007,456
SOULP, CW
SOUHP, CW
SOUHP, CW
VE3KI
W9XT
W8BI
(KD8SAV, op)
W9RIT
VE3GFN
K9GY
187,128
165,200
100,596
SOULP, CW
SOULP, CW
SOULP, CW
N5MF
N5FO
VE5UF
94,576
1,254,192
896,896
SOULP, CW
SOUHP, CW
SOUHP, CW
K6WSC
WL7E
KZ2V
551,600
208,972
166,944
SOULP, CW
SOULP, CW
SOULP, CW
KØLUZ
KR4F
W4DXX
WW4LL
870,688
800,580
731,340
1,495,844
SOUHP, CW
SOUHP, CW
SOUHP, CW
ML
K9CT
K1LT
N9CK
W8AV
1,349,800
863,532
539,452
470,640
SOUHP, CW
SOUHP, CW
SOUHP, CW
SOUHP, CW
W5GN
AC5K
K5WE
NØNI
853,072
659,736
505,968
1,498,754
SOUHP, CW
SOUHP, CW
SOUHP, CW
ML
W7RV
K6LL
KO7AA
KH7Y
153,120
1,331,840
1,205,892
1,017,072
SOULP, CW
SOUHP, CW
SOUHP, CW
SOUHP, CW
N4SVC
1,007,124
ML
VE3EJ
457,056
SOUHP, CW
WØDLE
1,066,394
ML
SOUHP, CW
718,592
95,408
88,984
1,883,752
1,115,072
1,010,360
621,456
450,432
ML
ML
ML
MH
MH
MH
MH
MH
N9CDX
W9WJM
KA3MTU
K9VMP
AA9A
W8PR
VE3YAA
W9GG
VC3M
ML
ML
ML
ML
MH
MH
MH
MH
MH
NØHJZ
KGØUS
WØANT
NX5M
W5KFT
KDØS
NØAT
KØDU
506,160
481,740
317,152
3,216,840
1,970,024
1,895,296
1,265,184
1,227,150
ML
ML
ML
MH
MH
MH
MH
MH
W7RN
(KM9R, op)
W7ZR
W7TVC
VA7BEC
N6GEO
N7UJJ
KD7RCJ
W8TK
NX6T
KH6RR
WC7Q
W7JLC
963,968
WA1S
WD4LBR
WN2E
K4FJ
AA4HP
W4HZ
K5UA
W4YCC
801,900
981,046
785,460
332,904
90,528
46,410
1,740,354
1,391,500
1,319,200
588,990
509,334
SOUHP, CW
ML
ML
ML
ML
ML
MH
MH
MH
MH
MH
N4UW
NA5NN
(W5UE, op)
WA1FCN
N4EEB
K3SV
Full Results – Version 1.3
1,905,856
244,216
42,840
13,250
2,850
2,297,552
845,918
612,582
209,520
176,800
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1,407,922
SOUHP, Mix